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omniscient

[om-nish-uhnt] / ɒmˈnɪʃ ənt /


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Yet economic policy-makers are neither omniscient nor omnipotent.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Instead of omniscient narrators, they deployed free indirect speech to reveal characters’ innermost thoughts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Each year, those firms become more intelligent and more omniscient about the markets, while the market mob becomes more animalistic and less focused on risks taken in pursuit of rewards.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

The town they grow roots in is ironically named; from the omniscient narrator’s vantage point, New England’s beauty is in stark contrast to the community’s poverty and desperation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

It’s just...a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini