omniscient

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Yet economic policy-makers are neither omniscient nor omnipotent.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Instead of omniscient narrators, they deployed free indirect speech to reveal characters’ innermost thoughts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Each year, those firms become more intelligent and more omniscient about the markets, while the market mob becomes more animalistic and less focused on risks taken in pursuit of rewards.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

The capabilities of the intelligence agencies in the United States or in Israel are very impressive, but they're not omniscient.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2023

Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton