read minds
idiom
: to know exactly what people are thinking
He claims that he has the ability to read minds.
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The questions were all pretty easy until Hudson asked them to choose one in a classic fantasy scenario: be invisible or be able to read minds?
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
His ability to read minds is coveted by the organization.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Oct. 2025
Guy is their newest inductee, a 20something with an iffy American accent (Denton is Australian), a worrying clonazepam dependency, a fancy NYU law degree and — of most interest to the Talamasca — a rare ability to read minds.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Everyone is out here trying to read minds, and doing a bad job of it.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Similar science fiction tales recount the worry that governments will seek to read minds and opt to imprison people simply for having thoughts about undertaking criminal acts.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
To give them both cover, the two get married and adopt a young girl called Anya, who can read minds and therefore knows the secrets of the other two.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
Unlike telepaths, who can read minds, hypnotics have the power to control them, reshaping a person’s reality and redirecting their impulses.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
His ability to read minds is coveted by the organization.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Oct. 2025
Guy is their newest inductee, a 20something with an iffy American accent (Denton is Australian), a worrying clonazepam dependency, a fancy NYU law degree and — of most interest to the Talamasca — a rare ability to read minds.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Everyone is out here trying to read minds, and doing a bad job of it.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Similar science fiction tales recount the worry that governments will seek to read minds and opt to imprison people simply for having thoughts about undertaking criminal acts.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
To give them both cover, the two get married and adopt a young girl called Anya, who can read minds and therefore knows the secrets of the other two.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
Unlike telepaths, who can read minds, hypnotics have the power to control them, reshaping a person’s reality and redirecting their impulses.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
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“Read minds.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/read%20minds. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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