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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
Inside, the hydrofoil gearings for the Pole Star sat in red dimness, clicking gears and whirring automation mechanicals for the sails and hydrofoils and parasail reels.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
At that time the comet should appear just to the right of the pole star.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
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
It is called Polaris, the pole star, and has the distinction of being the star that moves the least amount as the northern sky turns each day.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Dis didn't seem to have a pole star, however a boxlike constellation turned slowly around the invisible point of the pole.
From Sense of Obligation by Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)
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