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Recent Examples of panoptic
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
His deep understanding of the law and panoptic attention in the courtroom have informed his fiction ever since.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
His deep understanding of the law and panoptic attention in the courtroom have informed his fiction ever since.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 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
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
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
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
This was hardly the first significant English poetry anthology, but Quiller-Couch’s attempt to go panoptic, to view with clarity two-thirds of a millennium of verse, pointed to something new.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
His deep understanding of the law and panoptic attention in the courtroom have informed his fiction ever since.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
His deep understanding of the law and panoptic attention in the courtroom have informed his fiction ever since.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 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
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
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
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
This was hardly the first significant English poetry anthology, but Quiller-Couch’s attempt to go panoptic, to view with clarity two-thirds of a millennium of verse, pointed to something new.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panoptic
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The space telescope, which launched in 1999 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, continues to provide data allowing scientists to make new cosmic discoveries.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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Our view of the Summer Triangle will become all the more spectacular on the nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24, at which time the bright ribbon of light from the Milky Way may be visible from dark sky areas, tumbling directly through the cosmic triangle.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
12 July 2025
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The vast majority of fans in attendance were sporting orange and black.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
5 July 2025
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With a double harbor set at the tip of a long and sinewy peninsula on a highly strategic coastline, Knidos grew rich from its favorable natural position and from trading wine, olive oil and vast quantities of amphorae.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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Melvin Doyle, meanwhile, has an extensive criminal record dating back to his late teens.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
9 July 2025
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The liner notes for the album contain extensive interviews with Stone as well as the other original members of the Family Stone.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2025
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But the physical geography of France and the wider route chosen for the 2025 Tour have also contributed.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Yet, this theory has continued for years—centuries, in fact—to give rise to a wide range of colonic quackery.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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Lachlan MacLean, 27, was washed overboard after getting hit by a large wave during the brothers' sail from Peru to Sydney.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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India was a collage of states, each the size of a large European country, with languages, scripts and literatures of its own.—
Aatish Taseer,
Time,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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The floods’ impacts on Texas music have been far-reaching.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2025
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President Donald Trump's massive federal spending and tax bill stands to have far-reaching impacts on Arizona's energy and clean technology landscape.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
9 July 2025
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In 1970, when a nearly unanimous Congress approved sweeping changes strengthening federal air pollution laws, one proviso allowed California in many cases to craft its own rules — a recognition of the challenge the Golden State faced in dealing with the nation’s worst smog problem.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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But the top Trump advisor picked April 1, the day before Trump announced sweeping tariffs, to make the sale, according to disclosure reports obtained by USA TODAY.—
Suhail Bhat,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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His exhibition mood board included visual references as wide-ranging as casinos, funhouse distortions, and the films of Jordan Peele.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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The company—which counts NATO and OpenAI among its prominent and wide-ranging client pool—raised $100 million in funding from Fortress in April and $85 million in new funding in March, following a $475 million round in 2021 that valued Dataminr at $4.1 billion.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 July 2025
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“Panoptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panoptic. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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