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 telepathic
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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
Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
That’s because Mercury will be moving backward through Pisces, the emotional, empathic, and even a bit psychic water sign.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 25 Feb. 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
Others didn’t want to hear explanation, suspicious of a larger culture that considers anti-Blackness the usual weather, on some psychic level, basically tolerable.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
That’s because Mercury will be moving backward through Pisces, the emotional, empathic, and even a bit psychic water sign.
—Maressa Brown, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
Noun
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Iran’s parliament appears to be working on a bill to formalize fees for some ships in the Strait of Hormuz, local media reported.—
David McHugh,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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There’s been a temptation among observers, including the media outlets that have covered this story over the past few months, to understand Clavicular as, essentially, a curiosity.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Giant subterranean sandworms measuring 1,500 feet long; a narcotic that fuels interstellar travel and bends a user’s perception of space-time; a mystical cabal of eugenicist witches—the list goes on.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2026
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On the question of how Korean content had come to dominate global popular culture, Hwang offered a structural rather than a mystical answer.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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More than a decade later, their chemistry is best described by Murray as telepathic, intellectual, instinctual.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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The experience rekindles her passion for drawing and suddenly reveals the contours of her telepathic gift.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The actor will portray Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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The actor was cast in Voorhees’s film years before his death as priest and spiritualist Father Fintan but never had a chance to step on set due to his throat cancer.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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For Hildegard of Bingen, the German mystic, scientist, composer, and philosopher, women’s maternal bodies were not corrupting and degrading, but strong, nurturing, and creative.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Operating within those parameters, the mystic outlands trend extends to some of the world’s most mesmerizing corners.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
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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 28 Mar. 2026.
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