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Recent Examples of omniscience
The poet, who died in 1976, injects mournful omniscience into explorations of heartache.
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The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
This reciprocal gaze reinforces our sense of being shown an all-encompassing space, while the steadfastly linear perspective implies a kind of stable omniscience.
—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
My omniscience evaporates outside the subject/object divide.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
This reciprocal gaze reinforces our sense of being shown an all-encompassing space, while the steadfastly linear perspective implies a kind of stable omniscience.
—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
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
Noun
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The question is whether that adjustment happens in a chaotic, reactive way, triggered by cascading losses, infrastructure failures, and abrupt insurance withdrawals, or through foresight and planning.—
Michael Sheldrick,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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McNally had the foresight, according to company lore, to bury two of their printing machines in the sand at Lake Michigan.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2025
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With Season 7 now on Netflix — after the questionable prescience and potency of Season 6 — IndieWire is updating our ranking of every installment.—
Steve Greene,
IndieWire,
12 Apr. 2025
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Both require prescience, flexibility and a profound understanding of complex frameworks.—
Boris Kreiman,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Omniscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscience. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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