panoptic

Example Sentences

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As the movie progresses, the definition of God evolves into something sweeping and panoptic.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024

South Korean authorities relied on a panoptic software they had been developing to manage “smart city” projects — a dashboard to collect and analyze data to improve urban life.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021

Some are all-seeing, panoptic; others are yearning and blinkered, unable to return the gaze they attract.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

In “Latin History for Morons,” a panoptic survey of two millenniums of oppression in the Americas, he tosses off dozens of quick character sketches that feel exactly as true as they are likely inaccurate.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2017

Finally, we have panoptic staining; that is, by methods which bring out, as characteristically as possible, the greatest number of elements.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.