compass

Thanks to their late father’s surveying compass, however, George gains an important skill in charting the land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The more Mary affords grace to others, the more she gains confidence in who she is, as a person with a strong moral compass forged away from her mother’s ambitions.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Walking in these diagonal directions, as well as 5 feet in the straight compass directions, shows that many pairs of dots on this giant chessboard are exactly 5 feet apart.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Chart your own course. Keep your compass true. The world is yours.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

The needle of his compass started to swing and spin, unable to point north since north was straight down.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Researchers have proposed quantum compasses as highly accurate, "unjammable" alternatives to GPS that do not rely on satellites, and phonon lasers could help bring such concepts closer to reality.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Dr. Sharvit speculated that, lacking compasses, astrolabes or sextants, seafarers in the 14th century B.C. probably relied on celestial navigation, taking sightings and angles of the sun and star positions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

So many of the technologies that we know today were stolen from China by the West, such as porcelain, gunpowder, compasses and bank deposit insurance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

They sail over us, zipping and dipping and spinning, their little compasses guiding them to the throne platform.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

“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

He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing".

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Before Giles could touch her, or Lunt, who was coasting about the long table to come at Henrietta, had compassed half the distance--there was a knock at the door.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

James was not slow in compassing Ralegh's downfall.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

The reeling of millenniums set Smith's mind awhirl with the effort at compassing their span.

From The Tree of Life by Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile)

Perhaps no more faithful and graphic presentation of the diplomacy that is employed in compassing a second marriage can be given than is found in the proceedings of Perthes.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail

And the knower, as he knows, in and through his knowledge must always be compassing just that which is not impossible to him, but only unknowable—that is, impossible merely to his direct, formal knowledge.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.

Previous to the Hicks Expedition Abu Anga had already secured a number of them, and they were largely instrumental in compassing the complete downfall of that ill-fated army.

From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by Wingate, F. R.