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
Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
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
Niela Orr, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.
—Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Willing to try anything, Mary began speaking to alleged psychics.
—Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
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
Adjective
Never mind the nihilism and repression and confusion that ran rampant in the country’s cities and rural areas — there was a special psychic vortex here, the messaging went.
—Niela Orr, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.
—Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
Noun
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Troops on Monday seized a prison in the northeastern town of Shaddadeh, where some IS detainees escaped and many were recaptured, state media reported.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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Those cities and others represent markets the PFL believes has spending power, media interest and passionate fan bases hungry for live combat sports.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The Beatles’ mystical bond will come across in the movie, said Mescal.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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Their attempt to decipher Chtcheglov’s mystical phrase lasted 15 years.—
Andrew Holter,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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At the Squawk, Vickie is freaking out just at the moment El and Kali pull Max into their telepathic world of Blackness, just as the planet, aka the Abyss, starts descending.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
31 Dec. 2025
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But what my daughter and I especially like about Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians is that several members of the leading cast have visions, telepathic empathy, and respect ancient wisdom and prophecy.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
8 Dec. 2025
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The eccentric spiritualist Mary delivered a message from the real dead woman — Maxine’s twin, Mirabelle — then lifted the casket lid and saw that Maxine was there.—
Rosemary Rossi,
Variety,
25 Dec. 2025
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There was a big movement at the time — because so many people were killed in the Civil War, and so many women were losing children — of spiritualists, who were almost all women, who would speak to the dead.—
Mike Miller,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Dec. 2025
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Humor can release the writer from values of the past, along with judgment and disapproval, and instead, humor can become the very conduit for re-thinking events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Nov. 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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As the country’s preeminent Donald Trump channeler, James Austin Johnson has been spending some time doing White House grinchiness lately.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Although Nuccio is as down to earth as anyone could be, and definitely not a mystic, there can be no disputing his stature as a remarkable man.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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Madonna was born and raised Catholic but has long practiced the Jewish mystic tradition of Kabbalah and adopted the Hebrew name Esther in 2004, per The Forward.—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
21 Dec. 2025
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Season 4 saw the cast confront the mysterious Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), an incredibly powerful telepath, in a battle that left Hawkins devastated and expanded the rift between the Earth and the Upside Down.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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Such was the case when the always wonderful Jo Brand stepped up and proved herself a telepath.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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