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Recent Examples of omniscience
Langbein’s Monica — having finally transcended her past and ascended to spiritual omniscience — becomes Jean’s interlocutor.
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Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Acme imparts a sense of trust by foregrounding its own lack of omniscience.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
In the section of Evin Prison reserved for political prisoners, interrogators pummeled human rights advocates, journalists, and union activists with questions calculated to display the state's seeming omniscience.
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Karl Vick,
Time,
16 Mar. 2026
Gently expounded with a God-like omniscience by an unseen narrator (Will Patton), Train Dreams takes place in a space between the then and the now, being simultaneously of the past and in the moment (Bentley plays with time in unexpected ways).
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
8 Nov. 2025
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Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Acme imparts a sense of trust by foregrounding its own lack of omniscience.
—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
In the section of Evin Prison reserved for political prisoners, interrogators pummeled human rights advocates, journalists, and union activists with questions calculated to display the state's seeming omniscience.
—
Karl Vick,
Time,
16 Mar. 2026
Gently expounded with a God-like omniscience by an unseen narrator (Will Patton), Train Dreams takes place in a space between the then and the now, being simultaneously of the past and in the moment (Bentley plays with time in unexpected ways).
—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
8 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscience
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That is one future no amount of foreknowledge or planning can avoid.
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The younger daughter had arrived with foreknowledge of the role her older sister had already claimed.
Noun
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His interdisciplinary foresight inspired one of the most popular museums in the United States, the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Roosevelt had the incredible foresight to look 100 years into the future.
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In the opening monologue of the night — nearly verbatim for most nights on the tour — Springsteen ad-libbed some additional context, acknowledging the prescience of the evening.
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Ten years later, the prescience of these words may be observed not just in a surprising foot race upset but in an entirely different cultural moment.
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