How to Use clairvoyant in a Sentence

clairvoyant

adjective
  • The leader of a band of desert mercenaries is hired to kill a ruthless despot and his clairvoyant sorceress.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Or since the birth of the world's most famous – the world's only famous? – Christian clairvoyant.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Polls aren’t clairvoyant—especially if an election is close, which was the case in many of the recent surprises.
    Marcus Woo, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Spiegel also noted that Märtha Louise claimed to be a clairvoyant herself.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2019
  • That thinking seemed clairvoyant after Murray was injured during the warm-up before the first game of the playoffs.
    Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The team has the authority to make its arrests based on the visions of three clairvoyant individuals who can see into the future.
    Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
  • But while Davis’ warnings proved almost clairvoyant, the fund has yet to hit the jackpot due to freakish circumstances in the debt market.
    Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Lorraine is clairvoyant, but their connection runs deeper than that.
    Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • While not everything in that column turned out to be prescient (no one is clairvoyant), there were nuggets that some readers hopefully took to heart.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Tuesday, however, was worthy of the award, so maybe the CHL was clairvoyant.
    Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Turns out surprising a woman with clairvoyant powers is no easy task, even for a sixth-generation shaman.
    Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 2 Oct. 2022
  • At the time, many people in the business world considered Byrne to be an almost clairvoyant entrepreneur.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • His most recent effort was prescient and clairvoyant and deserved to be in the Palm Readers Hall of Fame.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The Aston is a steady and calm interstate cruiser, with a smooth ride and a steering system that imparts a clairvoyant sense of straight ahead through its nicely contoured wheel.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2022
  • From clairvoyant camels to mystic elephants and cryptic rats, a range of animals -- big and small -- have tried their paws, hooves and tentacles at predicting the score line.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Macintyre is a spirit worker — a clairvoyant medium, to be exact — and does her tarot readings out of a modern, cozy home office.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • So while bats aren't actually clairvoyant, those of them that track insects are highly accurate hunters that rely on more than just visual cues.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There are nights when Green seems not just perceptive, but clairvoyant—working in advance of developments that have yet to occur.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There was no opportunity here for the non-clairvoyant investor to have profited (except perhaps by shorting the news out of sheer pessimism).
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The sellout crowd at the American Airlines Center proved clairvoyant.
    Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • This is why Pisceans are considered the most empathetic, clairvoyant, and creative sign of the zodiac.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Some psychics rely on clairvoyant abilities, while others use divination tools like tarot cards.
    Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Among their own motivations, hardly hidden, was a desire to appear clairvoyant.
    Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • At the center is Lin Shaye's Elise Rainier, a clairvoyant demonologist.
    Tom Philip, GQ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • To hear the book was finished in May 2020 feels almost clairvoyant.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • It's heavily implied that Lottie is either schizophrenic or some sort of clairvoyant.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The eight-speed automatic transmission goes clairvoyant, picking the perfect gear for any corner and shifting with near-dual-clutch quickness.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The downgrade made then-Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, seem clairvoyant.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Indeed, right up until the nose starts to chatter off line, Subaru's new coupe is gifted with exceptional balance and clairvoyant reflexes.
    Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Hayek Pinault believes Pina had clairvoyant powers and genuinely cared for Patrizia.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021

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