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"He wanted a straight line to be drawn on a map to look like a straight line in reality if you followed a compass bearing," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

What about the faintly ludicrous figure of the foregoing 100-plus minutes was supposed to make me care about his moral compass?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

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

She held out her hand for the compass.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

"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

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

Malcolm turned to his homework, constructing figures with his ruler and compasses, a task he normally enjoyed, but he couldn’t focus on it at all.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" 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

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

Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.

From Time Magazine Archive

At night, having compassed more than fifty miles, they finally halted, and prepared to camp just within the shelter of a patch of woodland, which here broke the monotony of the grass veldt.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

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 W. P. (William Paton) Ker

Lean Jim Turley—forgetful of his interests in a fairly divine satisfaction with compassing the joy and welfare of his fellows!

From Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

Never be guilty of leaving the spoon in the cup and compassing it with one or more fingers in carrying it to the lips.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke

Among other things, treason was defined to be waging war against the King, or compassing and imagining his death, or the overthrow of his Government.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

They toiled upward with stubborn determination, and wasted breath in voluble commination of the length of the way, when they could have employed it more usefully in compassing it.

From White Fire by John Oxenham