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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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In truth, my compass spun in search of whiskey and other spirits, looking for how these spirits illuminated a culture.—
Lanee Lee,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Through a series of flight and lab experiments, researchers found pigeons can use special cells in their liver as an internal compass.—
Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Reid plays this so well, but the direction is a little over the top, with drug-trip visuals that are too distracting to follow the dense-as-ever disjointed narration.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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The suspect appeared to fire a gun indiscriminately in the direction of several people and then ran back toward the apartments, Perez said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 June 2026
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“Lodestar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodestar. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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