compass

The emotional compass of the United Farm Workers of America for decades, the petite mother of 13 attained singular stature as a rule-breaking proto-feminist, godmother of the Chicano power movement and doyenne of American labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

"Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

That was when he pressed this compass into my hand, and told us that he promised he would go on looking for Marlene.

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

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

“I knows him!” and, after a few convulsive efforts, the red legs took the shape of a pair of compasses, and the intelligent pupil triumphantly shouted, “It’s a We, Dranpa, it’s a We!”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“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

These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college" in the state.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She galloped it in one piece, and, thanks to her good pony, compassed the distance in rather more than two hours, having ridden close on fifty miles since dawn.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

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

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

Just now life meant quiet, earnest compassing of the three things.

From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

But there seemed to be no means of compassing this end, try as he would to think of some way.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap

And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong and fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall