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

But understanding how this came to be first requires a panoptic survey of everything from the world of the Late Cretaceous period to the 1990s rise of right-wing politics in Mongolia.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2018

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

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert