lodestar
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During the Cold War, as collectivism made advances in all areas of life, individualism made sense as a lodestar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Some in the party thought they had found the lodestar in the now-disgraced Platner.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Washington’s Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Maine’s Jared Golden, and California’s Adam Gray all took the stage opposite Matt Yglesias, the blogger and intellectual lodestar of this event.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025
“In these cases, we want to make sure that their lodestar are student and faculty rights, rather than who is exerting the most pressure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
To the unabashedly chauvinistic Time, the youthful Professor Lawrence’s career symbolized the emergence of American science as the lodestar of international research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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