orient oneself

idiom

: to find out where one is

The hikers stopped to orient themselves by looking at their map.

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Or maybe twenty years is enough time to orient oneself to the band’s unique cosmology. —

Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022

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