as in medium
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead
a celebrity psychic who managed to convince at least some people that their deceased loved ones were using him to relay messages
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as in mystical
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as in telepathic
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Andy Wang, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Yelp noted a 74 percent increase in Americans searching for psychics and a 63 percent uptick in searches for astrologers.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
After a confident and charming pilot, the show wastes no time in getting weird — from psychic gorillas to time travel to a walking nuclear weapon (Firestorm).
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Digital carnival games, face painting, AR selfies and an on-site psychic will keep the party going at an event that prides itself on being spooky but not scary.
—Andy Wang, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Yelp noted a 74 percent increase in Americans searching for psychics and a 63 percent uptick in searches for astrologers.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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—USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
After a confident and charming pilot, the show wastes no time in getting weird — from psychic gorillas to time travel to a walking nuclear weapon (Firestorm).
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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There was a Manchester media, a Birmingham media, and so on.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2025
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Users and advertisers have fled the social media platform, partly in response to Musk’s promotion of conspiracy theories and neo-Nazi accounts.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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Some even produce compounds that interact in mysterious ways with animal biology, inducing profound and mystical psychedelic experiences.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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According to Gerard van Belle, director of science at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, an alignment of seven planets is neither mystical nor particularly rare.—
Katrina Miller,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Nibert loved the free-thinking spirit of the village and its college.—
Keith BieryGolick,
Cincinnati.com,
28 Aug. 2019
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Credit Gus Malzahn for being proactive and thinking long-term in choosing his starting quarterback.—
Creg Stephenson | [email protected],
al,
22 Aug. 2019
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Back at the White Tower, Verin Sedai (Meera Syal) has arrived to have a chat with these channelers Nynaeve and Egwene she's heard so much about.—
Alex Raiman,
EW.com,
15 Sep. 2023
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Male channelers, on the other hand, seem to have gotten some upgrades.—
Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson,
Ars Technica,
29 Sep. 2023
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Founded on the ethos of art as a form of mystic healing, the label reimagines the family heirloom—and invites its patrons to examine their relationship with objects.—
Nia Shumake,
Essence,
3 Feb. 2025
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Healy Lake members have long considered their dogs to be mystic companions, according to Combs.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
4 Dec. 2024
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Her tales of power-hungry telepaths and erotic alien encounters are now canonical, in science fiction and beyond.—
Stephen Kearse,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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This is the film that launched a million Fangoria subscriptions, its troubled telepaths diving into vein-popping psionic warfare.—
Matt Brennan,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Oct. 2024
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But the sequences are also meant to be dream visions, metaphysical and cinematic escapes into an alternate dimension full of exquisite grandiosity and grace.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
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The movie is a metaphysical mystery, a sort of American gothic in which a warm and inviting old suburban house becomes the shivery site of a haunting, a confinement, and a menace.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Images shared by pro-Kremlin channels purport to show the Russian soldiers inside the pipelines.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
9 Mar. 2025
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If your boss asks you to buy gift cards or transfer funds, try to confirm in person or via an official company channel.—
Alex Vakulov,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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