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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as in mystical
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as in telepathic
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Recent Examples of psychic
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
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
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Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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The iconic items fit well in this book given how many Avengers don’t feel complete without a gadget or mystical item to carry into battle.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Bathed in an otherworldly blue‑green glow, this natural pool looks impossibly mystical … and there’s a good reason why.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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 19 Sep. 2025.
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