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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Hall’s clairvoyant was not your typical fortune teller.
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Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2025
Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Coming 12 years after Farmiga and Patrick Wilson’s first Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: Last Rites marks the pair’s fifth and final film playing real-life clairvoyant Lorraine Warren and her husband, demonologist Ed Warren, in The Conjuring Cinematic Universe.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The clairvoyant then watched his team record a three-spot against the Tigers in the opening frame.
—Zack Meisel, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
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Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2025
Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Coming 12 years after Farmiga and Patrick Wilson’s first Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: Last Rites marks the pair’s fifth and final film playing real-life clairvoyant Lorraine Warren and her husband, demonologist Ed Warren, in The Conjuring Cinematic Universe.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The clairvoyant then watched his team record a three-spot against the Tigers in the opening frame.
—Zack Meisel, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clairvoyant
psychic
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The town, about 25 miles southwest of Daytona Beach, Florida, is home to mediums, psychics and healers, many practicing out of their homes.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Clairvoyant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clairvoyant. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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