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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
Pop The rapper turned pop star Lizzo felt like a lodestar of the twenty-tens Zeitgeist.
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Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
At the same time, Tyler notched another accomplishment as one of the select few guests to appear on Clipse’s comeback album, Let God Sort Em Out, produced by his longtime musical lodestar, Pharrell Williams.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2026
President Harry Truman quickly made the memo the lodestar of American Cold War strategy.
—Caleb Pomeroy, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2025
But in swapping out just four tracks, FKA twigs finally brought planet EUSEXUA into the orbit of her late-’90s pop lodestars.
—Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
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Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
At the same time, Tyler notched another accomplishment as one of the select few guests to appear on Clipse’s comeback album, Let God Sort Em Out, produced by his longtime musical lodestar, Pharrell Williams.
—Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2026
President Harry Truman quickly made the memo the lodestar of American Cold War strategy.
—Caleb Pomeroy, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2025
But in swapping out just four tracks, FKA twigs finally brought planet EUSEXUA into the orbit of her late-’90s pop lodestars.
—Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodestar
Noun
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Values act as both a compass and a driving force, pointing you toward the right goals and motivating you to pursue them.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
22 Apr. 2026
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Alignment lasers and the ship’s gyro-compass ensured the rotors were plumb and correctly oriented.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The global war concluded inconclusively, with territory changing hands in many directions.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Adjust the plan, and let that flexibility keep everything working without losing your own direction or sense of independence in the process.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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“Lodestar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodestar. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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