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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Recent Examples of omniscient
Suddenly, as if some omniscient observer had pressed play, the scene roared to life.
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Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Where most of his music casts his omniscient people-watching as a superpower, here his constant witnessing is punishing.
—Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
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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South Florida Bacon & Brunch Fest brings the sizzle to Boca Raton … with $5-or-less menus!
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
Where most of his music casts his omniscient people-watching as a superpower, here his constant witnessing is punishing.
—Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
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.
Related Articles
South Florida Bacon & Brunch Fest brings the sizzle to Boca Raton … with $5-or-less menus!
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
Adjective
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But this doesn’t preclude the desire so many have to believe that not every single thing in the universe can be boiled down to facts and figures and that there is a power greater than the almighty atom.—
Marsha Sutton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Dynasties Fall There are some concrete reasons for City’s almighty drop—the remarkable development this term.—
Henry Flynn,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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There is your beloved child, her forehead too pale, her cheeks too flushed, her enormous eyes gone glassy with fever, tacitly pleading with you, the omnipotent God of her tiny universe, to do something.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2025
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In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Each time he’s killed testing the alien atmosphere for viruses or absorbing massive amounts of radiation on a space walk, he’s resurrected in a printing machine in what amounts to a hilariously terrible immortal drudgery.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Federal agents found photos of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s supreme leader that had been deleted in a folder on Alawieh’s cell phone, a source familiar with the case told CNN.—
Andy Rose,
CNN,
20 Mar. 2025
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But this year, the roundball — not the pigskin — reigns supreme.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In justifying his actions, some of Musk's powerful Big Tech allies suggest that the only way to run our country more effectively is to install an all-powerful CEO-monarch who can remake the government, entirely free of legal constraints.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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North America has been devastated by war and divided between a decadent, all-powerful Capitol and 12 struggling districts.—
Bob Minzesheimer,
USA TODAY,
18 Mar. 2025
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Tootsie Scooter — officially known as the divine Suzie Toot — has scooted her final toot on the RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 stage.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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At the core of Judaism and Christianity lie divine interventions that rip a hole in the known universe and change the course of history.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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