compass
Example Sentences
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“The only question after the assassination and its immediate celebration is: What the heck is going on with America’s moral compass?” said Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Hatchlings come equipped with a magnetic compass that helps them maintain direction, and a magnetic map that provides location information essential for successful navigation.
From Science Daily
It is so tawdry and pitiful and, yet, so perfectly appropriate for a man of gross appetites and bereft of a moral compass.
From Seattle Times
If you don’t find words to compass it, he says, “it becomes a wordless darkness, and you will never defeat it.”
From New York Times
AI trains on our own flawed human data sets — unrestrained by a moral compass, social pressure or legal restrictions.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
