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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

But these thoughts are known as ego-dystonic, which means they are in direct conflict with that person's beliefs and moral compass.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Over and over, my compass guiding, I measure the land.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

But something more nuanced emerges regarding our internal compasses in filmmaker Levan Akin’s “Crossing,” about a retired Georgian schoolteacher trying to track down her transgender niece in Istanbul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

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

These include the earliest dated set of European navigation instruments found thus far: compasses, protractors, calipers, sounding leads, tide calculators, and a device for calculating speed called a log reel.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

“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

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.

For that which is visible and tangible one may hope to cope with and subdue, but the invisible and intangible contain possibilities beyond the compassing, and the elements of unreasoning fear.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

For he would not have supposed that Miss Judy was known by any one beyond the compassing hills, so completely had her life seemed bound about by the wooded borders of the village.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston

Whence this mystery, and disguise, and circuitous compassing of his end?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus

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)

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.