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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

"By attempting to be all things to all voters," he wrote, "it seems to have lost both its moral compass and its nerve."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

For help with that internal navigation, Rebecca Solnit’s moving 2005 book, “A Field Guide to Getting Lost,” proved a better compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

At the same time, Rondon used a compass to note the direction of the river.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Earth's dipole field, created by its liquid outer iron core, produces a magnetic field that loops from the North Pole to the South Pole and is the reason compasses point toward the poles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

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

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2024

It’s the kind of showmanship that makes moral compasses short-circuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

The famous unsolved problems of the day were geometric: With only a straightedge and compasses, could you make a square equal in area to a given circle?

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Verily, he compassed sea and land to make proselytes to the faith, of which he became such a doughty champion.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

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

It is compassing sea and land in its efforts to overcome, by ingenious financial and technical expedients, obstacles which should never have existed.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.

The ‘formal garden’ of the Rose is equally true, inside the wall— The gardin was by mesuring Right even and squar in compassing.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)

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.

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 Sawyer, Frederic H.