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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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But even with that foreknowledge, the moment hits us like a truck full of dynamite, aided immensely by Thurman’s explosive shock at the sight of her daughter.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2025
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The chat reportedly included discussions that could indicate ideological motivations, and possibly even encouragement or foreknowledge of the attack.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Effective leadership in 2026 still requires foresight, intelligence, delegation, and the ability to separate signal from noise.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Under state law, these chairs would have eventually been auctioned off or destroyed had Illinois lawmakers not had the foresight to pass a 2014 law allowing the secretary of the senate to donate objects used by Obama to museums or the presidential museum.—
Jack O'Connor,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Carlson never went that far, but Murdoch didn’t forget his prescience.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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Brooker’s prescience had struck again.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Omniscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscience. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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