omniscient

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Yet economic policy-makers are neither omniscient nor omnipotent.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Sometimes perspectives shift within a page, within a scene, moving rapidly and gleefully between points of view, and using that omniscient voice to steer us around — that was fun.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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

In short, the historical record itself, and not just our own omniscient imaginations, provides the requisite evidence from which we can reconstruct the response to the proslavery argument.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis