compass
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Skye MRT said walkers should be wary of technology failing and be able to use a map and compass.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Despite her national profile, there remains a nagging suspicion that she lacks an internal compass and the courage of her convictions.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
His middle name is an ode to Huckleberry Finn — sharp wit, kind heart, strong moral compass — all the attributes he’s imparted on us in spirit,” said Saleh, 45.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
“My internal compass will keep me headed in the right direction,” said Roz.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
"Haematite is widespread. Centuries ago, it was already used for compasses in seafaring," explains Bossini.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
Guided by phosphorescent compasses strapped to their wrists, the divers reached the ship in just a few minutes.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
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
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
The screen responded as quickly as thought itself, and out of the welter of lines and flashes a series of pictures formed with perfect clarity: compasses, alpha and omega again, lightning, angel.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
“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
Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.
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
The candle of our intelligence throws its beams but a little way, beyond which the circle of light is compassed by universal darkness.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
Thine auguries are like my good fortune,—long in compassing.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
"And now," said I, eyeing the pair, "what mischief have you two been compassing?"
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
Whence this mystery, and disguise, and circuitous compassing of his end?
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
The reeling of millenniums set Smith's mind awhirl with the effort at compassing their span.
From The Tree of Life by C. L. (Catherine Lucile) Moore
In the spring of the year 1763, Pontiac, in compassing his grand scheme of hostility, sent, among the rest, to the Indians of Michillimackinac, inviting them to aid him in the war.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
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