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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Recent Examples of psychic
Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 July 2025
At the bachelorette party, a psychic (Vanessa Bayer) predicts the second swap, and mayhem ensues.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
Athena Sobhan, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Future speakers will include psychics, energy healers and people who deal with spells and other otherworldly topics, Antico said.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
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Noun
Once Sinner was through with Martinez, Djokovic put on one of his psychic clinics, tap dancing his way across the grass to a 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 demolition of Miomir Kecmanović, also of Serbia.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 July 2025
At the bachelorette party, a psychic (Vanessa Bayer) predicts the second swap, and mayhem ensues.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
Adjective
While some pet psychics may use different approaches to communicate with an animal, MacKinnon prefers not to see a photo or video of a pet before a session.
—Athena Sobhan, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Future speakers will include psychics, energy healers and people who deal with spells and other otherworldly topics, Antico said.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
Noun
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Hyperlocal Customer Engagement Banks, retailers and media firms seeking personalized outreach can also utilize this trio of AI tools.—
Narendra Babu Vattem,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Trump has spoken to the British media in the past, but has favored conversations with friends, including Piers Morgan on TalkTV and Nigel Farage on GB News.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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Fred is left to make sense of his wife’s disappearance in a story that takes a mystical turn.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
17 July 2025
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Part of what makes the garden in the novel seem so mystical is the illusion that every surface is covered with flowers and plants.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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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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Further, there’s some worry that by spending thousands of years finding and gentling (or executing) male channelers, humanity has begun to self-select channeling out of the gene pool.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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Along with Nynaeve and, to a lesser extent, Alayne, Egwene is one of the most naturally powerful channelers the Aes Sedai have ever seen.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
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The man from Osaka’s right arm is almost mystic, like one of California’s solemn redwoods.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 July 2025
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Further projects include psychological thriller The Olive Press, set in the mystic world of the Druze community in Mount Lebanon, from writer and director Samah El Kadi, and co-written by Nadim Chammas.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
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Presented as an academic study of destructively codependent telepaths, Stereo is basically a dry run to the later Scanners, emphasis on the dry.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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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
Adjective
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The sense of evil has nothing cosmic or metaphysical about it; there’s no grandeur and no wonder to Gunn’s universe and, although there’s much discussion of the defining quality of one’s actions and choices, the film’s superheroes seem thin, constrained, and undefined.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
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Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 July 2025
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The media ministry owned by Santa Fe Communications began broadcasting Mass on a single channel in 1984.—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
18 July 2025
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The new regulations require affordability checks, clearer customer information, and proper complaint channels, placing BNPL closer to traditional credit in both responsibility and scrutiny.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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