North Star
Example Sentences
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“That is my North Star and I hope it’s the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
During the abolitionist movement and the war itself, the North Star became a practical element of enslaved African-Americans’ looking to the heavens, a beacon of freedom and hope.
“There was no North Star. There was no vision. There was no direction,” Meunier said in an interview.
Among the operations, which targeted social programs in the North Star State, was a $250 million scheme involving the nonprofit group Feeding Our Future.
From Salon
On that point he was fixed and unwavering as the North Star itself.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
