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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Recent Examples of psychic
Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Murderous beasts, brain-eating zombies, a school filled with werewolves, psychics and other Outcasts, and a tangle of mysteries.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Maressa Brown, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
What ensued was a journey down the psychic rabbit hole that would bring him from plant neurobiologists to stream-of-conscious novelists, AI laboratories, and even a Zen Roshi’s cave.
—Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Willing to try anything, Mary began speaking to alleged psychics.
—Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Murderous beasts, brain-eating zombies, a school filled with werewolves, psychics and other Outcasts, and a tangle of mysteries.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
That’s because Mercury will be moving backward through Pisces, the emotional, empathic, and even a bit psychic water sign.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
What ensued was a journey down the psychic rabbit hole that would bring him from plant neurobiologists to stream-of-conscious novelists, AI laboratories, and even a Zen Roshi’s cave.
—Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
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Because the Duggars adhere to a fundamentalist fringe of evangelicalism, the liberal media are often quick to use the family’s failings as a cautionary tale about Christianity in general, and conservatives can be too quick to interpret criticism of the family as criticism of the church.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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In a boardroom at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium earlier this week, Joao Fonseca—the 19-year-old Brazilian tennis phenom—is making media rounds before the Miami Open begins.—
Nick Remsen,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2026
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Yet not all the motivations for the construction of Brasília were political; some were mystical, even religious.—
Sophia La Banca,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Mar. 2026
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Then, as Polly’s (Helen McRory) stand-in, Kaulo (Rebecca Ferguson), the mystical twin of Tommy’s long-dead Roma lover (and Duke’s mother), who has dubious intentions — and an equally iffy accent to match.—
Miriam Balanescu,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
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More than a decade later, their chemistry is best described by Murray as telepathic, intellectual, instinctual.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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The experience rekindles her passion for drawing and suddenly reveals the contours of her telepathic gift.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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The actor will portray Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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The actor was cast in Voorhees’s film years before his death as priest and spiritualist Father Fintan but never had a chance to step on set due to his throat cancer.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Humor can release the writer from values of the past, along with judgment and disapproval, and instead, humor can become the very conduit for re-thinking events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Nov. 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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As the country’s preeminent Donald Trump channeler, James Austin Johnson has been spending some time doing White House grinchiness lately.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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To come in the presence of an artist who was such a channeler of spirit through their work is such a privilege.—
Eileen Finan,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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For Hildegard of Bingen, the German mystic, scientist, composer, and philosopher, women’s maternal bodies were not corrupting and degrading, but strong, nurturing, and creative.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Operating within those parameters, the mystic outlands trend extends to some of the world’s most mesmerizing corners.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
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Season 4 saw the cast confront the mysterious Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), an incredibly powerful telepath, in a battle that left Hawkins devastated and expanded the rift between the Earth and the Upside Down.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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Such was the case when the always wonderful Jo Brand stepped up and proved herself a telepath.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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