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

In the former case, it is inevitable that his authority on matters connected with the "unseen world" should be roughly shaken; in the latter, the blow falls upon the authority of the synoptic gospels.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.