omniscient
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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
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
That is the way Moravia writes — except that you, reader, have been granted omniscient privileges to sit on his shoulder and copy all the answers!
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
Seriously, I never claimed to be an omniscient narrator exactly, but I really did think I knew the basics of the story I’ve been telling.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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