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Recent Examples of panoptic
His deep understanding of the law and panoptic attention in the courtroom have informed his fiction ever since.
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Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Through Khaled’s oddly paralyzed exile, Matar offers a beautifully panoptic portrait of London as the city of literary exile and emigration par excellence, a place where the Arab intelligentsia came in the seventies and eighties and after.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
Cheeky or humble, a name like Tiny Universe belies the wide cosmology above Karl Denson, a panoptic saxophonist and bandleader at home in any constellation of the blues – whether abreast of Lenny Kravitz and The Rolling Stones, or as helmsman of his own vessel.
—Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2022
There the internet became mandatory and panoptic.
—1843, 19 June 2020
Visitors to this point of gathering and reflection would have panoptic views of the city, with Dealey Plaza and the downtown skyline in one direction and the future Trinity park in the other.
—Mark Lamster, Reimagining Dealey: We asked a team of leading designers to redesign one of Dallas' most significant spaces, 20 Oct. 2022
The panoptic awareness created by virality is an Eye of Sauron, a lidless and unceasing glare that will follow you to the ends of the earth.
—WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
This was hardly the first significant English poetry anthology, but Quiller-Couch’s attempt to go panoptic, to view with clarity two-thirds of a millennium of verse, pointed to something new.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Browne studies how surveillance technologies have objectified, categorized, and repressed black people, from the panoptic slave ships of the Middle Passage to modern policing tools deployed against protesters.
—Sidney Fussell, Wired, 19 June 2020
Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Through Khaled’s oddly paralyzed exile, Matar offers a beautifully panoptic portrait of London as the city of literary exile and emigration par excellence, a place where the Arab intelligentsia came in the seventies and eighties and after.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
Cheeky or humble, a name like Tiny Universe belies the wide cosmology above Karl Denson, a panoptic saxophonist and bandleader at home in any constellation of the blues – whether abreast of Lenny Kravitz and The Rolling Stones, or as helmsman of his own vessel.
—Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2022
There the internet became mandatory and panoptic.
—1843, 19 June 2020
Visitors to this point of gathering and reflection would have panoptic views of the city, with Dealey Plaza and the downtown skyline in one direction and the future Trinity park in the other.
—Mark Lamster, Reimagining Dealey: We asked a team of leading designers to redesign one of Dallas' most significant spaces, 20 Oct. 2022
The panoptic awareness created by virality is an Eye of Sauron, a lidless and unceasing glare that will follow you to the ends of the earth.
—WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
This was hardly the first significant English poetry anthology, but Quiller-Couch’s attempt to go panoptic, to view with clarity two-thirds of a millennium of verse, pointed to something new.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Browne studies how surveillance technologies have objectified, categorized, and repressed black people, from the panoptic slave ships of the Middle Passage to modern policing tools deployed against protesters.
—Sidney Fussell, Wired, 19 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panoptic
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Their will-they-won't-they romance (now officially canon in the comics and on the Max series Harley Quinn) feels like a long-overdue cosmic alignment.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Red Hand League The team of cosmic detectives suggests that a defining factor in the make-up of ILTRs could be a dense shroud of gas and dust that surrounds the progenitor stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Hauraki Gulf is a vast and ecologically rich body of water that stretches from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula and Great Barrier Island.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Suns can die and then rise new the next morning but for us, when our little light has vanished, one vast night must be slept and slept forever.—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Iryna has over 12 years of personal experience with counseling, in addition to taking part in an extensive AI course to further enhance her knowledge of the technology.—
Emma Kershaw,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The administration recently eliminated 3,500 FDA jobs as part of extensive cuts in federal health workers’ ranks.—
Heather Vogell,
ProPublica,
4 Apr. 2025
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The black-and-white clip also featured a Casablanca-esque wide shot of a man in a trench coat walking down an eerie street as an unseen violin plays a crackling melody.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
26 Mar. 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of emails and other confidential material spilled onto the internet, and the hackers threatened to carry out terrorist attacks on cinemas showing the film, causing Sony to retreat and pull its wide release.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Country Airplay list is Billboard’s largest radio-specific chart, tracking 60 songs each week.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Another video posted from a high angle showed a large plume of smoke coming from the house and filling the air.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Now, America’s Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is commenting on the tariffs, and warning everyone that this is more far-reaching than a single, upcoming console.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Last Leaf, a collection from the Danish String Quartet, captivated the audience with its virtuosic music for violin, viola and cello, and the far-reaching sources reflected in its compositions.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The only reason to invoke such a power is to try to enable sweeping detentions and deportations of Venezuelans based on their ancestry, not on any gang activity that could be proved in immigration proceedings.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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In his nearly twenty years as Chief Justice, Roberts has espoused a sweeping vision of Presidential authority—sometimes with language so broad as to make Congress and the courts appear small by comparison.—
Cristian Farias,
The New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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Booker’s speech was a wide-ranging protest One unusual element of Booker’s oration is that it was not focused on just one narrow issue.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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Loved by some and hated by others, there’s no question that President Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs will affect virtually every U.S. industry.—
Dan Gingiss,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Panoptic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panoptic. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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