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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscience
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The shoot had originally been scheduled for October 2024, because Aris’ wife was due to give birth over the summer, but lead producer George Schoucair at Abbout Productions had the foresight to move the production date forward.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Companies that redesign their operating models capture outsized gains, resetting expectations for cycle times, agility, foresight, and resilience in their industries.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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