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 passages unfold in the intimate first person, some in the inclusive, indicting second, and some in the panoptic third, but the over-all narrator remains elusive.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

There are no mobile phones, and none of the panoptic apparatus of the modern surveillance state.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2016

I suppose the town has a modern jail now—perhaps even with panoptic galleries!

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert