as in almighty
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knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge
an omniscient deity The novel has an omniscient narrator.
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The fine wine and fine dining event is being double-teamed by resplendent resort The Boca Raton and oenophile omniscient Napa Valley Vintners of California.
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Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
The Illusion Of Complete Coverage Vulnerability scanners, while indispensable, aren’t omniscient.
—Oren Koren, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Star-studded as ever, this visit to Grover’s Corners welcomes such familiar faces as Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, and of course, Jim Parsons, who guides the story as our omniscient Stage Manager.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling.
—Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
The Illusion Of Complete Coverage Vulnerability scanners, while indispensable, aren’t omniscient.
—Oren Koren, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Star-studded as ever, this visit to Grover’s Corners welcomes such familiar faces as Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, and of course, Jim Parsons, who guides the story as our omniscient Stage Manager.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling.
—Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
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But has Vin de France, like the Impressionists’ salons, contributed to the decline of the establishment, in this case, the almighty appellation system?—
Anna Lee C. Iijima,
Bon Appétit,
22 Jan. 2025
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That may bring a halt to the Boston Girl’s letter-writing campaign against the almighty adverb.—
John Nogowski,
Hartford Courant,
17 Jan. 2025
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Their gods weren’t omniscient, weren’t omnipotent, and definitely weren’t all good.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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In its formulation, the problem of evil is a simple one: How can an omniscient, omnipotent and all-good God allow evil and suffering to occur in the world?—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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In the immortal words of Laurence Laurentz, would that it’were so simple.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 Feb. 2025
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Laura Palmer, the immortal heroine (played by Sheryl Lee) of Twin Peaks, appears to me all the time.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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And in an interview alongside adviser Elon Musk that aired on Fox News on Feb. 18, Musk suggested—not for the first time—that Trump ought to have supreme authority, unrestricted by the courts.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Comedian Jennifer Coolidge is touted as a supreme talent who didn't make the show.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC News,
17 Feb. 2025
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Spanish regulators followed a long-standing national tradition of vesting regulatory authority in a single all-powerful administrator, the Bank of Spain, which left the country with no mechanism for correcting policy mistakes.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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The very principle that the country would not be ruled by an all-powerful king was foundational to the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed in the Constitution, the latter of which was hammered out during a contentious convention in 1787.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Others in light blue prayed for divine intervention, understanding little else could save UCLA.—
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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Family, friends and devoted fans are currently holding a vigil outside of the Advent Health Training Center, praying for divine intervention, but the prognosis is grim.—
Mike Bianchi,
Orlando Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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