How to Use panopticon in a Sentence

panopticon

noun

• The result, if all goes well, may be the world’s first true panopticon.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Which, of course, is the intent behind the creation of this kind of panopticon.
  — Jennifer Wright, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• The best way to prevent a financial panopticon is to not build it at all.
  — Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
• The open kitchen is also a sort of culinary panopticon.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• There are only eight panopticons of this style known to exist in the world today, three of which can be found at Pentridge.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• In its worst sense, the home office can become a sort of panopticon with supervision enforced on all sides.
  — Jelena Radonjic, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• If there is one constituency that will appreciate the introduction of a wealth tax, it is made up of fans of the panopticon state.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
• In that scene, Wharton’s New York is a panopticon no resident can escape.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2022
• How strong might the normative effect be with the panopticon effect—the feeling someone just might be watching?
  — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• The constant presence of video cameras can turn our streets and homes into weird panopticons, my colleague Drew Harwell wrote.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• This ability to be remotely present in these crises is also a product of the panopticon, the surveillance state.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• How does one acclimate a former barn cat to the ultimate panopticon?
  — Lauren Oster, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
• The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the panopticon, a prison designed to allow all the prisoners to be observed by one guard.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Sep. 2021
• Forever 21–meets–Bentham’s panopticon compound in Spain — is best suited for the topic at hand.
  — Curbed, 21 July 2022
• Spaceship Neptune’s swanky, pressurized lounge is a panopticon of windows and includes a bar and bathroom.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2021
• The bubble courts are a sort of pandemic panopticon powered by Microsoft Teams.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2020
• The filming devices in the home establish a panopticon where the husband and children are pawns in an advertising campaign for the woman’s self-image.
  — Abigail Anthony, National Review, 11 Feb. 2024
• Very weird all around, but what IS a normal way to react to your body being turned into a panopticon run by your psychotic billionaire husband?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• Big Tech has created a pervasive, inescapable panopticon beyond the wildest dreams of the East German secret police.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 22 Jan. 2022
• The panopticon prison designed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century has reached its ultimate expression in the world imagined by Adjei-Brenyah.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Private, unregulated space has now been breached and is in the process of being transformed into a space of surveillance and control — a kind of digital panopticon.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Classic views of surveillance envision a prison state – a Big Brother-esque panopticon where a guard in a tower can watch prisoners in cells but the prisoners in the cells cannot see into the tower.
  — Jenna Drenten, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
• What the show does manage, perhaps surprisingly, is to serve as a pretty good P.S.A. for the toll that social media’s panopticon-like effects take on its participants.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• Faith in the monarchy has been the bedrock of modern Thai identity, backed by a panopticon of propaganda and criminal punishment for criticism.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2020
• Cars with paper plates or none at all to avoid tickets and the police panopticon that now includes license plate readers, with drivers blaring their engines and paying no mind to red lights, speed limits, bike or parking rules.
  — Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 11 May 2024
• As a way to build tension in the unsettling panopticon vibe of the resort, Tranquillum, that tactic lends itself to jarring, intermittent impact.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2021
• More problematic, no one loves a panopticon, as seen in anti-proctoring petitions and protests.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Hill was the first reporter to identify Clearview’s sprawling network and lays out how the explosion of video doorbells and security cameras that can identify faces are turning our world into a panopticon, and a racist one at that.
  — Dave Lee and Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
• But the parental panopticon is not a mark of maturity and responsibility but rather of paranoia, distrust, and devolvement.
  — Cyd Harrell, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
• These questions dogged David Foster Wallace, a veritable panopticon of self-awareness.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 9 July 2020

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024