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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Recent Examples of psychic
Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Luke then sets off into the unknown with Kalisha (Simone Miller), Nicky (Fionn Laird), and George (Arlen So) — three other psychic kids trapped at the facility — as well as Tim (Ben Barnes) and Wendy (Hannah Galway), the two police officers who came to their aid.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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
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Noun
Photos showed Trump leaving the White House to visit one of his golf courses on August 30, but that didn’t dissuade the psychic.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Luke then sets off into the unknown with Kalisha (Simone Miller), Nicky (Fionn Laird), and George (Arlen So) — three other psychic kids trapped at the facility — as well as Tim (Ben Barnes) and Wendy (Hannah Galway), the two police officers who came to their aid.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
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Bill Bowden,
Arkansas Online,
8 Sep. 2025
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The collapse of left-leaning digital news outlets like Vice News and BuzzFeed News, and anger among left-of-center audiences at mainstream outlets like CBS, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times over their owners’ moves to placate Trump have fueled appetites for new independent media.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Many described receiving a telepathic message warning humanity about harming the planet.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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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
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Fortunately, Una knows a Vulcan spiritualist who lives nearby.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Nibert loved the free-thinking spirit of the village and its college.—
Keith BieryGolick,
Cincinnati.com,
28 Aug. 2019
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Credit Gus Malzahn for being proactive and thinking long-term in choosing his starting quarterback.—
Creg Stephenson | cstephenson@al.com,
al,
22 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Yeats’s spirals, once dismissed as the wild diagrams of a mystic, now settle over this place like soot.—
Alaa Alqaisi
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 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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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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