as in psychic
someone who is able to know another person's thoughts without being told what they are; someone who is able to read minds
How was I supposed to know what you were thinking? I'm no mind reader.
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Recent Examples of mind reader
On the other side, the doctor is not a mind reader.
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Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
People are not mind readers.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
Zach Collins does not profess to be a mind reader.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2023
But our shoppers aren't mind readers.
—Sharath Rao, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2021
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Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
People are not mind readers.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
Zach Collins does not profess to be a mind reader.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2023
But our shoppers aren't mind readers.
—Sharath Rao, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2021
See All Example Sentences for mind reader
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mind reader
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Murderous beasts, brain-eating zombies, a school filled with werewolves, psychics and other Outcasts, and a tangle of mysteries.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The true purpose of these Institutes is to pinpoint and develop precogs, psychics with the ability to foresee the future.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Presented as an academic study of destructively codependent telepaths, Stereo is basically a dry run to the later Scanners, emphasis on the dry.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Her tales of power-hungry telepaths and erotic alien encounters are now canonical, in science fiction and beyond.—
Stephen Kearse,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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In a blockbuster trade, the NFL and ESPN formally announced their billion-dollar agreement that will see ESPN acquire NFL media assets — including NFL Network, linear distribution rights to RedZone and NFL Fantasy — in exchange for the NFL receiving a 10% ownership stake in ESPN.—
Dan Shanoff,
New York Times,
6 Aug. 2025
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At the time, league leaders were already considering the possibility of unloading—or seeking outside partners for—its media arm, though the NFL wouldn’t formally hire Goldman Sachs to assist with the process until the following year.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Mind reader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mind%20reader. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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