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as in medium
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead a celebrity psychic who managed to convince at least some people that their deceased loved ones were using him to relay messages

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adjective

variants also psychical

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Recent Examples of psychic
Noun
Answers from the Other Side — with psychic John Edward, whose Syfy show, Crossing Over with John Edward, was the first-of-its-kind back then. Natasha Stoynoff, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025 Whether Weems knew about Aunt Ophelia before Wednesday had her connecting psychic vision upon reading her aunt’s journal, Christie wouldn’t say. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
According to federal officials, the Jacksons used money from investors to pay for luxury residences in Hawaii and California, a Mercedes-Benz, luxury vacations, psychics and marijuana. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2025 Exhausting all resources, Cuellar has sought out six different psychics to locate Teddy. Olivia Cyrus august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for psychic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The simmering tension between media companies and Google over the search giant’s use of those companies’ journalism in its AI products has just spilled over into a new courtroom battle.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • On the other side, boards and investors are hungry for success, constantly pushing for higher returns and that mystical unicorn status.
    Scott Paddock, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The film very loosely adapts one tale from the lore of the titular Chinese protection deity, an eccentric-looking boy warrior of mystical, demonic birth.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And up in orbit, the Enterprise also embraces the fantasy vibe, deploying a Vulcan mind-meld to get Spock and Kirk piloting the Enterprise and Farragut, respectively, in telepathic unison.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Many described receiving a telepathic message warning humanity about harming the planet.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For those of our listeners who might be watching The Gilded Age, there’s a spiritualist moment where the character, played by Cynthia Nixon, is trying to contact her late husband.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Fortunately, Una knows a Vulcan spiritualist who lives nearby.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Nibert loved the free-thinking spirit of the village and its college.
    Keith BieryGolick, Cincinnati.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Credit Gus Malzahn for being proactive and thinking long-term in choosing his starting quarterback.
    Creg Stephenson | cstephenson@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • To come in the presence of an artist who was such a channeler of spirit through their work is such a privilege.
    Eileen Finan, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Along with Nynaeve and, to a lesser extent, Alayne, Egwene is one of the most naturally powerful channelers the Aes Sedai have ever seen.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet Blanc’s real faith lies in the nearly mystic quality involved in seeing what the human animal is capable of.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the concept means to be a resistance against what the early-twentieth-century Catholic mystic philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere, which for him converges throughout human history.
    Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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