as in almighty
formal
knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge
an omniscient deity The novel has an omniscient narrator.
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Recent Examples of omniscient
No one can possibly know everything, so why waste time pretending to be omniscient?
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Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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
This is especially true among leaders who often face pressure to be omniscient.
—Dr. Michelle Frasher, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Their gods weren’t omniscient, weren’t omnipotent, and definitely weren’t all good.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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
This is especially true among leaders who often face pressure to be omniscient.
—Dr. Michelle Frasher, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Their gods weren’t omniscient, weren’t omnipotent, and definitely weren’t all good.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
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Back in 2020, Dana Walden — then head of Disney TV and now co-chair of Disney Entertainment — negotiated a blockbuster deal to steal the almighty Kardashian clan away from their longtime home, NBCUniversal.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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The Hollywood pair took an almighty punt when deciding to spend £2million buying a club that even its most devoted fans feared would never again experience football’s glories.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 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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In 2023, the rapper/singer spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and talked about the birth of that immortal couplet.—
Angel Diaz,
Billboard,
12 May 2025
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That would be the immortal Jerry Dybzinski, whose base-running gaffe in Game 4 of the 1983 American League Championship Series proved costly in an extra-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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The Saudis have been urging the Iranian regime to strike a nuclear accord with the United States and even sent their defense minister to meet with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, last month.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 May 2025
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Get the recipe 07 of 21 Pepperoni Pasta Salad This pasta salad tastes like a supreme pizza in the best way possible.—
Patricia S York,
Southern Living,
21 Apr. 2025
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One of India's mightiest cricketers, worshipped by a billion people who has been one of only a select few to have lifted a World Cup title for his all-powerful cricket country, looked totally dejected with this blockbuster series slipping away.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Maybe the Cubs, perennially in need of divine intervention, will now have a new pal in a high place.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
11 May 2025
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Had my accent lapsed so much that divine intervention was required?—
Shauna Lyon,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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