as in sixth sense
the power of seeing or knowing about things that are not present to the senses
people who claim to have clairvoyance are sometimes asked to help locate missing persons
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Recent Examples of clairvoyance
The information comes to me from my spirit guides in three different ways: clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience.
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Investors expect perpetual outperformance, teams expect infallible guidance, regulators expect clairvoyance, and the media expect quotable eloquence.
—Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
There is a certain frequency DeLillo captures, or maybe creates, not entirely unlike that of Conrad’s and Didion’s in its clairvoyance and occasional portentousness, that suggests a secret world hovering behind the world of the everyday.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
The Podcaster Division: Dozens of our favorite culture-podcast hosts and producers are competing in a subset of the MFL to prove who has the superior awards-season expertise, box-office clairvoyance, and drafting savvy.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Investors expect perpetual outperformance, teams expect infallible guidance, regulators expect clairvoyance, and the media expect quotable eloquence.
—Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
There is a certain frequency DeLillo captures, or maybe creates, not entirely unlike that of Conrad’s and Didion’s in its clairvoyance and occasional portentousness, that suggests a secret world hovering behind the world of the everyday.
—Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
The Podcaster Division: Dozens of our favorite culture-podcast hosts and producers are competing in a subset of the MFL to prove who has the superior awards-season expertise, box-office clairvoyance, and drafting savvy.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clairvoyance
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Since his mom Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Hawkins Police Chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour) found him in the Hawkins Library at the end of Season 1, he’s continued to have a sixth sense for everything relating to the alternate dimension.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
26 Nov. 2025
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Rosalía can have a sincere desire to know the world via the arts and a sixth sense for what sets people off.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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The wide-ranging records include a letter from a woman claiming that her mental telepathy indicated Earhart was still alive, and another from a man claiming her grave was located in Spain.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
14 Nov. 2025
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Getting in good positions but lacking the necessary telepathy with his new team mates, meaning his usual big end product figures (10 goals and six assists in 25 Bundesliga league appearances last season) aren’t there.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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So, is there any truth to the legend that Halloween babies have second sight?—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
23 Oct. 2025
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With the bullish determination of Ed and the wide-eyed second sight of Lorraine, the Warrens’ only child sells a clear vision of right and wrong when news of the Smurls’ predicament comes their way.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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The chat reportedly included discussions that could indicate ideological motivations, and possibly even encouragement or foreknowledge of the attack.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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What was the level of foreknowledge about this attack?—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Some parapsychologists, people who study paranormal phenomena, believe the explanation lies in dogs’ extrasensory perception, or ESP—mental abilities beyond the five senses.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
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The speculative element can take many forms—monsters, time travel, elevator operators with extrasensory perception—but the stories then usually adopt a more classic plot.—
Nathaniel Moore
September 10,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Clairvoyance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clairvoyance. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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