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
At its core, the multiverse is like an omniscient crystal ball that displays all fortunes rather than just one.
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Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
The Abrahamic faiths conceive of God as an omniscient creator and generally abjure gambling as a result; one of the first laws passed by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the possession of cards, dice, or gaming tables.
—Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
My brother, using the mechanics afforded to him in his omniscient role, prolonged Fletcher’s story by magically reviving him.
—Ally Beardsley, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
Hayek feared the rise of the omniscient economic oracle: a laurate at once whispering into leaders’ ears and shouting at the public even as their predictions remain largely guesswork.
—Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024
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Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
The Abrahamic faiths conceive of God as an omniscient creator and generally abjure gambling as a result; one of the first laws passed by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the possession of cards, dice, or gaming tables.
—Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
My brother, using the mechanics afforded to him in his omniscient role, prolonged Fletcher’s story by magically reviving him.
—Ally Beardsley, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
Hayek feared the rise of the omniscient economic oracle: a laurate at once whispering into leaders’ ears and shouting at the public even as their predictions remain largely guesswork.
—Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, TIME, 31 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omniscient
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Chasing after a simpler trail of culpability keeps us circling back, decade after decade, to figure out how the music industry that enabled R. Kelly, a church of the almighty dollar where the hit is holy, has yielded yet another golden-eared terror.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
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Nothing can get the almighty iPhone to cede its crown, but AirPods Pro’s value proposition skyrocketed into the stratosphere following this week’s update.Steven Aquino, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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For decades during and after the Cold War, Turkey’s secularist devlet baba was seen as omnipotent, powerful, and almighty.Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
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There is something so wonderfully obscene about having a town with hundreds of people living their lives, running into conflict, hoping for better, and your omnipotent self is stuck on which bookcase best fits this living room corner.Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2024
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Carlson had been raised Episcopalian but basically secular, encouraged to talk about the weather rather than his immortal soul.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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After all, having 200,000 immortal or self-replicating monkeys working consistently until the end of the universe is just as infeasible as having infinite time to begin with.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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However, it is frequently overlooked by general celebrants of the spooky holiday who are not supreme enthusiasts of the King of Pop.Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The supreme leader has also vowed to start stoning women to death in public again.Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Can a seemingly all-powerful two-party system ever be disrupted?Dustin Eide, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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This is a signal that the all-powerful dividend magnet would pull the stock higher.Brett Owens, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Evangelical leaders celebrated Trump’s victory as a fulfillment of God’s divine will.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Traders are buzzing about the possibilities, constantly checking the latest polls and moves in election betting markets to divine who’s ahead, Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris, and what that means for their positions.Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Omniscient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omniscient. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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