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Working through that backlog would take weeks even after the waterway is safe to pass, said Saleem Khan, chief data and analytics officer at maritime-intelligence firm Pole Star Global.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The name Polaris is taken from the Pole Star, used for navigation by slaves escaping northwards in the US in the 19th Century.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2019
This week the Finsler comet is almost opposite the Pole Star in its path across the northern sky toward the Big Dipper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite night blindness, the Pole Star would follow, sniffing at them with its radar arrays.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Pole Star threw herself up beside them, seeking to grapple, but Dauntless lunged past, carried by the surf.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Combining lightning-quick, two-handed picking techniques with hammer-ons, pull-offs, complex harmonics and an array of innovative devices he patented, the guitarist became a pole star for generations of musicians.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2020
Ursa Minor contains the pole star, Polaris, and the asterism known as the Little Dipper.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
He may and should sing of the passions, but Duty is the eternal pole star of the soul!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
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