compass

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The ultras then set off red pyrotechnics which turned the compass needle back in the direction of the fans.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"At just 50-100 nanometers wide, these particles are the perfect compass needles," said Harrison.

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

I get into a crouch and can just feel my fingers on the compass when I hear it.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

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

That will mean switching to compasses and calling in artillery using a map — and doing it all seamlessly.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

In the morning the men took out their maps and compasses, checked nearby landmarks . . . and realized the British plane had badly missed the intended drop target.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

“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

Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words.

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

He kept it up until he knew he must have compassed more than half the distance—all that was required—between two poles, but he could not find one.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

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

The mountains where He dwelt rose close above the Island where He had tarried and suffered and overcome, compassing it about on every side.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

This manifestation, sixteen years after the mutiny at Cavite, seems to have had some relation to that event, for the petition accused the friars of compassing the death of Father Burgos, by subornation of justice.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

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