polestar
Americannoun
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something that serves as a guiding principle.
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something that is the center of attention or attraction.
Etymology
Origin of polestar
Example Sentences
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It’s hard to muster one’s revolutionary fervor for Cohn, the man the “Bad Gays” podcast once labeled “the polestar of human evil.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024
“If we can’t have a conversation with the past, what will be our future?” asks the play’s polestar, one pure-hearted Eric Glass, portrayed by moony-eyed Kyle Soller as sincerity incarnate.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2019
For in Martin’s vast creation, sprawling in both space and time, there is an ever-present drive, an orienting polestar: Who will emerge victorious and sit on the namesake Iron Throne?
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018
Removes a dark polestar, one might say, by which we measure the degree of evil.
From Slate • Aug. 25, 2014
Stallman may no longer be the solitary leader of the free software movement, but he is still the polestar of the free software community.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam
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