polestar

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We could have as easily used the great, real-life Hawai'i detective Chang Apana as our polestar.

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  1. noun See Polaris.
  2. noun A guiding principle.

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  • Even fewer knew the secrets of the polestar, and the aid to navigation that star could be. —  The African Quest
  • Now, if the old fossil-flicker was right about the rough latitude, and if they were on a near-northerly course on this trail as Claude thought they'd have to be, given the lay of the land, then the polestar should be about halfway between the horizon and the zenith somewhere in there. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • If we come back to the image of the inner navigator, then the mantras and texts can be seen as the polestar, which shows us true north.
  • The polestar of the GT500 is the supercharged and intercooled 5. 4-liter V8. —  Autoblog
  • We could have as easily used the great, real-life Hawai'i detective Chang Apana as our polestar. —  Latest Articles
 

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