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Recent Examples of panoptic
Visitors to Boston, today, might choose to stay at the Liberty Hotel, which transformed a panoptic prison into luxury accommodations decorated with whimsical reminders of the building’s past.
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Literary Hub,
22 Apr. 2026
The nearly eight-hour final episode of the Jonestown series is, among other things, a panoptic account of urban disorder and left-wing politics in the 1970s, and features a dizzying array of references, including to the anticolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and the filmmaker Terrence Malick.
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Joseph Bernstein,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
Through Khaled’s oddly paralyzed exile, Matar offers a beautifully panoptic portrait of London as the city of literary exile and emigration par excellence, a place where the Arab intelligentsia came in the seventies and eighties and after.
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James Wood,
The New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2024
The panoptic awareness created by virality is an Eye of Sauron, a lidless and unceasing glare that will follow you to the ends of the earth.
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WIRED,
1 Dec. 2022
Visitors to this point of gathering and reflection would have panoptic views of the city, with Dealey Plaza and the downtown skyline in one direction and the future Trinity park in the other.
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Mark Lamster,
Reimagining Dealey: We asked a team of leading designers to redesign one of Dallas' most significant spaces,
20 Oct. 2022
Cheeky or humble, a name like Tiny Universe belies the wide cosmology above Karl Denson, a panoptic saxophonist and bandleader at home in any constellation of the blues – whether abreast of Lenny Kravitz and The Rolling Stones, or as helmsman of his own vessel.
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Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive,
oregonlive,
5 Jan. 2022
Literary Hub,
22 Apr. 2026
The nearly eight-hour final episode of the Jonestown series is, among other things, a panoptic account of urban disorder and left-wing politics in the 1970s, and features a dizzying array of references, including to the anticolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and the filmmaker Terrence Malick.
—
Joseph Bernstein,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
Through Khaled’s oddly paralyzed exile, Matar offers a beautifully panoptic portrait of London as the city of literary exile and emigration par excellence, a place where the Arab intelligentsia came in the seventies and eighties and after.
—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2024
The panoptic awareness created by virality is an Eye of Sauron, a lidless and unceasing glare that will follow you to the ends of the earth.
—
WIRED,
1 Dec. 2022
Visitors to this point of gathering and reflection would have panoptic views of the city, with Dealey Plaza and the downtown skyline in one direction and the future Trinity park in the other.
—
Mark Lamster,
Reimagining Dealey: We asked a team of leading designers to redesign one of Dallas' most significant spaces,
20 Oct. 2022
Cheeky or humble, a name like Tiny Universe belies the wide cosmology above Karl Denson, a panoptic saxophonist and bandleader at home in any constellation of the blues – whether abreast of Lenny Kravitz and The Rolling Stones, or as helmsman of his own vessel.
—
Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive,
oregonlive,
5 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panoptic
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Chopra Jonas features in the cast of his upcoming Varanasi, about a Shiva devotee who is sent on a mysterious mission to find an ancient cosmic artifact.
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On the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NET) has detected the highest-energy cosmic neutrino on record.
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The vast majority of those flights — 80% of them — have been dedicated to building out the company's Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.
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In the final days of the war, the Nazis sought to destroy the party’s vast collection of membership cards and took them to a pulp mill near Munich for that reason.
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Don't wait for a perfect plan or extensive training; real learning in pricing, marketing, and operations occurs through direct action and adaptation.
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Battiloro was arrested following an extensive investigation and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and multiple traffic offenses, according to prosecutors.
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Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat drew on a wide range of cultural references that shaped both his life and his work.
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The same went for a wide throw from Anthony Volpe, which let Boston score on a potential double play ball in the eighth inning.
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The second-largest whale species after blue whales, fin whales are classified as an endangered species, according to NOAA.
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Last week, in interviews with The Times, the leaders of the two largest unions — United Teachers Los Angeles and Service Employees International Union Local 99 — called for Carvalho to be replaced.
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Over the past decade, the economy has fallen, leading to far-reaching economic reforms by President Bola Tinubu in 2023.
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The latter, in particular, stands out as the record’s most far-reaching track, landing somewhere between the original’s energetic breakcore, umru’s off-the-wall pop maximalism, and username’s new age footwork.
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But the Department of Homeland Security let go a third of CISA employees in 2025 through buyouts, early retirements, forced reassignments and sweeping layoffs.
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With Utah gripped by one of its most dangerous wildfire seasons in recent memory, state officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on Fourth of July fireworks ahead of the nation’s 250th Independence Day celebrations, saying the risk of sparking catastrophic new fires is simply too great.
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Amazon‘s Wondery is aiming to amplify the game of Boardroom, the media company founded by NBA champion Kevin Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman, under a wide-ranging deal.
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The companies are now the leading drivers of the burgeoning AI industry, and their competing views about how the technology should be regulated are playing out in a wide-ranging political ad spending war that has targeted congressional races in big cities and rural areas alike.
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“Panoptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panoptic. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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