How to Use omniscience in a Sentence

omniscience

noun
  • Acme imparts a sense of trust by foregrounding its own lack of omniscience.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • How do strongmen change their policies without puncturing the auras of omniscience on which their power rests?
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2022
  • What kinds of devious new products lie in wait now that Big Tech is convinced of its omniscience?
    — Firmin Debrabander, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • God, whose omniscience apparently ends at the edge of Job’s brain, disagrees.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • One tool is her use of editorial omniscience, including the voice and tone of the story.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • But don't mistake insight for omniscience; Alderton is still figuring life out too.
    — EW.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Plus, Walters had defanged chance by acquiring something close to sports omniscience.
    — Dan Piepenbring, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Her novels stand out for their brazen disregard for omniscience, manifested in her avoidance of the close third-person.
    — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The use of negative space, playfulness with light and dark, and sense of omniscience then played important roles in the design of these churches.
    — Suyin Haynes, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The goal is to give users a kind of local omniscience — perfect situational awareness of what’s around every corner and behind each hill.
    — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • And even the biggest intelligence budget and the latest spy gadgetry do not guarantee omniscience.
    — Alex Bollfrass, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • More likely, the digital currency will grant the state financial omniscience.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • What holds it all together isn’t his omniscience so much as his curiosity, his historian’s hunger to figure out why what happened happened.
    — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But the narration can also be alien, frightening, with an implacable omniscience.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • But because people lacked omniscience, the actual outcomes of their risk taking would reflect random deviations from long-term trends.
    — Alan Greenspan, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
  • With the omniscience of hindsight, calling Legally Blonde a piece of fashion iconography is easy and obvious.
    — Aamina Khan, Vogue, 13 July 2021
  • Scientific omniscience looks less likely than ever, and humans are far too diverse, creative and contrary to settle for a single worldview of any kind.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021
  • Your order constantly changes and evolves, because a Foodgōd’s what-to-order omniscience depends on knowing and trying it all, even at Nobu.
    — Candace Braun Davison, Esquire, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Named after the mystical seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings, Palantir sells the same aura of omniscience.
    — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The film’s narrative hops back and forth through time, but the Eternals themselves don’t appear to have the power of time-travel or the virtual omniscience that would go with it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But, per the omniscience of the Funko Pop, Plaza’s character has been revealed to actually be Death.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The Harpersville mayor is also a pastor and a school bus driver, and his connections give him something like social omniscience in the town, Gottlieb says.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Knowing how any of this will definitely pan out requires an omicron omniscience even the Academy’s best soothsayers can’t manage.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The precision of Mason’s perspective involves a kind of omniscience that feels equally microscopic and moral.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Adams narrates her transformation with alternating omniscience and doubt.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The problem, of course, is that digital omniscience is incredibly difficult to accomplish.
    — Taylor Owen, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2015
  • His three novels are remarkable for the distinctiveness of their styles, but also for their special uncanniness, their relentless omniscience.
    — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Well and good, but the author sometimes seems to want to turn Stettheimer into a tidy 21st-century urbanista, and in so doing takes on a dubious omniscience.
    — Tim Page, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The credibility of originalism depends on the narrowest of interpretations based on a level of omniscience that is not held by these jurists.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The effect is a kind of uncertain omniscience, which allows the novelist not only to move easily among his characters but to blend their thoughts, when need be, into a collective anxiety.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016

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