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Named after the mystical seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings, Palantir sells the same aura of omniscience.
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TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
The precision of Mason’s perspective involves a kind of omniscience that feels equally microscopic and moral.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
Here Shteyngart uses a 19th-century-style omniscience, moving from mind to mind within a scene (and, like Tolstoy, even occasionally inhabiting the minds of animals) while drawing back and commenting to the reader from a perspective that none of the characters are privy to.
—New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
Neither party can claim omniscience.
—Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
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TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
The precision of Mason’s perspective involves a kind of omniscience that feels equally microscopic and moral.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
Here Shteyngart uses a 19th-century-style omniscience, moving from mind to mind within a scene (and, like Tolstoy, even occasionally inhabiting the minds of animals) while drawing back and commenting to the reader from a perspective that none of the characters are privy to.
—New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
Neither party can claim omniscience.
—Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
See all Example Sentences for omniscience
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“Omniscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscience. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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