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Recent Examples of omniscience
This reciprocal gaze reinforces our sense of being shown an all-encompassing space, while the steadfastly linear perspective implies a kind of stable omniscience.
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Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Watching your favorite team navigate the perils of the battlefield can be stressful, especially with the godlike omniscience of what’s happening all around them — something the players themselves never know.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
His pans don’t aim for omniscience.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
My omniscience evaporates outside the subject/object divide.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Watching your favorite team navigate the perils of the battlefield can be stressful, especially with the godlike omniscience of what’s happening all around them — something the players themselves never know.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
His pans don’t aim for omniscience.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
My omniscience evaporates outside the subject/object divide.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for omniscience
Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscience
Noun
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This can only be achieved by developing an inherently agile culture, not just toward delivering software products but with a focus on strategic foresight and business operations.—
Tipu Usha Vaithee Swaran,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Rich Auntie Way of Life Balancing joy today with foresight for tomorrow is a hallmark of the Rich Auntie way of life.—
Kara Stevens,
Essence,
10 Sep. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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Sometimes Maron’s specials have been the result of pure prescience, like End Times Fun, a record of sweeping global paranoia that happened to be released March 10, 2020.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Omniscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscience. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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