How to Use omniscience in a Sentence

omniscience

noun

• This is the omniscience not only of a writer but of a wife.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• What kinds of devious new products lie in wait now that Big Tech is convinced of its omniscience?
  — Firmin Debrabander, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
• God, whose omniscience apparently ends at the edge of Job’s brain, disagrees.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The film’s narrative hops back and forth through time, but the Eternals themselves don’t appear to have the power of time-travel or the virtual omniscience that would go with it.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
• How do strongmen change their policies without puncturing the auras of omniscience on which their power rests?
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2022
• The Harpersville mayor is also a pastor and a school bus driver, and his connections give him something like social omniscience in the town, Gottlieb says.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• Mr Snowden was one of the facilitators of that omniscience.
  — The Economist, 13 Sep. 2019
• Your order constantly changes and evolves, because a Foodgōd’s what-to-order omniscience depends on knowing and trying it all, even at Nobu.
  — Candace Braun Davison, Esquire, 28 Feb. 2018
• With the omniscience of hindsight, calling Legally Blonde a piece of fashion iconography is easy and obvious.
  — Aamina Khan, Vogue, 13 July 2021
• Her novels stand out for their brazen disregard for omniscience, manifested in her avoidance of the close third-person.
  — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019
• The goal is to give users a kind of local omniscience — perfect situational awareness of what’s around every corner and behind each hill.
  — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Well and good, but the author sometimes seems to want to turn Stettheimer into a tidy 21st-century urbanista, and in so doing takes on a dubious omniscience.
  — Tim Page, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• But don't mistake insight for omniscience; Alderton is still figuring life out too.
  — EW.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• Short of a magical homunculus watching the activities of all the neurons in the brain with the omniscience of the experimenter, the neurons that take this all in are unaware of the events that caused these changes in their firing patterns.
  — György Buzsáki, Scientific American, 14 May 2022
• And even the biggest intelligence budget and the latest spy gadgetry do not guarantee omniscience.
  — Alex Bollfrass, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• Scientific omniscience looks less likely than ever, and humans are far too diverse, creative and contrary to settle for a single worldview of any kind.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021
• More likely, the digital currency will grant the state financial omniscience.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
• As Luckey and his team see it, Lattice will become not just a system for securing the border but a general platform for geographic near-omniscience.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• What holds it all together isn’t his omniscience so much as his curiosity, his historian’s hunger to figure out why what happened happened.
  — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• But for spectators, Mr. Orenstein’s invention offered a degree of omniscience seldom afforded in life, when the ending of a story can scarcely be seen at the beginning.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
• Knowing how any of this will definitely pan out requires an omicron omniscience even the Academy’s best soothsayers can’t manage.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022
• The effect is a kind of uncertain omniscience, which allows the novelist not only to move easily among his characters but to blend their thoughts, when need be, into a collective anxiety.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016
• The 2020 Volkswagen Golf features the Marvel-worthy superpower of omniscience, an ability to tell you about looming hazards and delays.
  — Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2019
• But the narration can also be alien, frightening, with an implacable omniscience.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• The credibility of originalism depends on the narrowest of interpretations based on a level of omniscience that is not held by these jurists.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
• His three novels are remarkable for the distinctiveness of their styles, but also for their special uncanniness, their relentless omniscience.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• Less interested in scene than in sweep, Allende nonetheless describes her characters’ emotions with great detail, writing in third person with an omniscience that drains any wonder from their choices and interactions.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• Economists mostly recognise that normal people—their friends and family—fall short of omniscience and perfect rationality in making day-to-day decisions.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2017
• That dichotomy is essential to sustaining the mystical omniscience of a play that draws heavily from biblical scripture and Jewish ritual.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 July 2018
• Given the failure to achieve consilience within physics and biology—not to mention the replication crisis and other problems—scientists should stop indulging in fantasies about conquering all human culture and attaining something akin to omniscience.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024