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also loadstar
as in compass
a guiding or motivating purpose or principle
a society seemingly with unbridled greed as its only lodestar
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Recent Examples of lodestar
Mamdani's City Hall would become a lodestar for the global Left.
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MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Treating Every Objective Like A Campaign As any former political campaign employee can attest, campaign strategies are the preeminent lodestar for virtually all communications plans.
—Andrew Frank, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In the years intervening, the poem has remained a lodestar, a contravening presence when, in present day America’s vituperative political landscape, the humanities disciplines and higher education itself has been forced to invoke and defend its own authority.
—Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
For years, the no-budget film with improvised dialogue was a lodestar for aspiring filmmakers with indie dreams.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
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The next year, McDermott navigated more with his own compass and the Bills went 10-6.—
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How mortgage rates move the rest of the year will vary, but experts also caution against viewing economic signals as a compass for your decisions.—
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At a moment of increasing niche-ification of the news media business, Axel Springer is running in the opposite direction.—
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Automation can go in either of these directions; that’s why the task of the left is to create social and cultural conditions in which the benign and constructive aspects of technology and automation are primary.—
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“Lodestar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodestar. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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