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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

In 2023, Chinese activist Kwon Pyong, who is an ethnic Korean, fled to South Korea on a jet ski, carrying binoculars and a compass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Worsley’s navigational equipment was down to one compass, his sextant, and his tables—and of the twenty-four chronometers he had taken with him from London, he had only one remaining.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

From compasses and electric motors to generators -- these and other devices would not exist without ferromagnetism.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And she had compassed more than a hundred yards when a faint sound, as of following feet, caught her ear.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

But Mr. Scrope has his refinements, and, besides that he spares himself, would take a particular pleasure in compassing my ruin at the same time that he outwitted you.'

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

The mountains where He dwelt rose close above the Island where He had tarried and suffered and overcome, compassing it about on every side.

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

To a certain extent she succeeded, during the few minutes, the precious ten minutes, she secured practically alone with her host, in compassing her wish.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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.

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

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