compass

The emotional compass of the United Farm Workers of America for decades, the petite mother of 13 attained singular stature as a rule-breaking proto-feminist, godmother of the Chicano power movement and doyenne of American labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Picture what you want your life to look like in a year and use that image as your compass.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

These particles could align with Earth's magnetic field and behave like microscopic compass needles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Where does one look for direction when the compass goes haywire?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

This was at Alexander’s request; he was quite taken with the topic of navigation all of a sudden and refused to go ten steps in any direction without referring to his compass.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Egues compares the arrangement to two compasses that interact through a magnetic field.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Cemeteries are invaluable compasses, a theme that binds Enriquez’s essays, and “Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave” is an immersive testament to her genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

Guided by phosphorescent compasses strapped to their wrists, the divers reached the ship in just a few minutes.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

He co-founded a company that began to manufacture this paint, which was used to illuminate aircraft instruments, compasses and watches.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023

I taught them how to use rulers, compasses, protractors, and triangular scales.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010

And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she judged, and rightly, that the priest's company would make that easy which she could not have compassed so well alone, though she might have won entrance.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman

Lean Jim Turley—forgetful of his interests in a fairly divine satisfaction with compassing the joy and welfare of his fellows!

From Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

Her soul was now addressed to the achievement of some plan of co-operation with the republican chief, and she succeeded where wiser persons must have failed in compassing the desirable facilities.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various

She was afterwards, however, accused of consulting witches concerning the mode of compassing the death of her husband’s nephew, Henry VI.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

James was not slow in compassing Ralegh's downfall.

From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt

But there seemed to be no means of compassing this end, try as he would to think of some way.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap