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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
But in swapping out just four tracks, FKA twigs finally brought planet EUSEXUA into the orbit of her late-’90s pop lodestars.
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Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
Despite their three-year age difference, Derek Hough and Julianne Hough have become the twin lodestars of Dancing With the Stars.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
Mamdani's City Hall would become a lodestar for the global Left.
—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
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Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
Despite their three-year age difference, Derek Hough and Julianne Hough have become the twin lodestars of Dancing With the Stars.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
Mamdani's City Hall would become a lodestar for the global Left.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodestar
Noun
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Likewise, this administration has demonstrated a talent for sudden pivots — foreign policy statements that change overnight, budget proposals that evaporate by morning, and messaging that suggests the communications team may be using different maps, compasses and time zones.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Instead, use it as a compass to drive your situational needs for the spaces that mean the most to you.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Trump’s direction of the hospital ship to Greenland comes shortly after NATO began boosting its defense in the Arctic, largely conducting military drills.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Feb. 2026
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The publication’s top editors are jockeying for the editor-in-chief role, a powerful position at a magazine where the writers, rather than the business side, traditionally control the direction of the enterprise.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Lodestar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodestar. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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