How to Use mind reader in a Sentence
mind reader
noun- How was I supposed to know what you were thinking? I'm no mind reader.
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And no, this doesn’t mean that their partners are mind readers.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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No one wants to be made a fool of, so a mind reader must make the con a pleasure to his prey.
—Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
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Your relatives are not mind readers.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
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Be prepared to compromise and don’t expect your friends to be mind readers.
—Nell Frizzell, refinery29.com, 19 Feb. 2020
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There are visual images that come into his brain, which separate him from just mind readers.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Officers cannot be expected to be mind readers.
—Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
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The world of mind readers would be, of course, a world without hypocrisy but also one without discretion.
—Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Speaking of which, this mind reader can tell a certain reporter is eyeing the bar set up in the back of his dressing room.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2019
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Major, who grew up in Woodbine, makes his living as a mentalist and mind reader.
—Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Aug. 2020
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Its narrator, Jill, is a literal mind reader who pops into the heads of people on the edge of death.
—Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
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Its illusions and elegant frauds let Brown masquerade as a mind reader.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
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This is true in any relationship really; none of us are mind readers, and at the same time, most of us really want to make our partner – or our parents, our friends, our kids and our co-workers – happy.
—Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2018
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Still, the Journal accused us of smearing this center and, in a leap of faith that would make a mind reader blush, divined that Charles Koch possesses no ideological master plan.
—WSJ, 24 June 2019
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Nobody is a mind reader, so better to ask the other side potentially obvious questions directly and hear their interpretation and motivations.
—Roman Gurskiy, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Amid all the bustle and transparent hustles, few of the dabblers at the Mystic Fair are aware that there is a genuine mind reader in the building, sitting in an office several floors below the concourse.
—Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2012
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The mind reader Frances Usher and her illusionist husband, Harry, lived there; Will Rogers, a prolific entertainer, liked to ride over from his ranch in the neighboring canyon.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Prom activities will include a red carpet entrance, photo stations, a Class of 2021 memory project, a trackless train ride, the traditional announcement of prom king and queen, raffle baskets and performances by mind reader, Jacob Mayfield.
—Zareen Syed, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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The Summer of Magic series continues at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca Raton on Saturday with magician, comedian and mind reader Yarden Shalev.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026
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