synoptic

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Some frustrated users turned to humour: "As much as I love a good game of hide and seek, can you tell us where you're hiding synoptic charts or drop some clues?"

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

That’s because, by the time a large-scale synoptic system makes its way across the country and evolves over time, it typically reaches the Southeast right during those evening hours.

From Scientific American • Dec. 16, 2021

Tornado outbreaks are associated with a large-scale synoptic system.

From The Verge • Dec. 13, 2021

Price’s synoptic, all-of-the-above approach suggests that our concept of “reading” has been curiously narrowed at a moment when it should have broadened.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

The only natural deduction is that it comes from the same source as the other sayings, and that source was not our synoptic Gospels.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard