clairvoyant

Definition of clairvoyantnext
as in psychic
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead Worried the house may be haunted, the family hired a clairvoyant to interpret its energy.

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Recent Examples of clairvoyant Lalami’s update to this premise is that preemptive arrests are now powered not by human clairvoyants but by AI, which trawls our dreams in real time. Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The Dial, 2 Dec. 2025 Set in the eerie streets of Victorian London, horror drama series Penny Dreadful features Green as Vanessa Ives, a troubled but powerful clairvoyant, working alongside Sir Malcolm, an explorer driven to find his missing daughter. Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 Among the 10 defendants seen arriving at the Paris Criminal Court in the French capital’s 17th arrondissement on Monday were Aurélien Poirson-Atlan, who posts under the pseudonym Zoé Sagan, as well as a clairvoyant named as Delphine Jegousse, who goes under the pseudonym of Amandine Roy. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025 Hall’s clairvoyant was not your typical fortune teller. Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for clairvoyant
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psychic
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  • Terazawa is working on her second novel, Curse Him, a surreal and tense autofiction accounting for three summer months of being scammed by psychics in a small Appalachian town.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • For generations, people have turned to psychics, astrology charts or tarot cards for reassurance.
    Ziv Epstein, Fortune, 16 May 2026

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“Clairvoyant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clairvoyant. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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