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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Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.
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Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Oct. 2025
The Week Us,
TheWeek,
14 June 2026
The other turns an industrial office space into an infinite realm of psychic dread.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
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Noun
The town, about 25 miles southwest of Daytona Beach, Florida, is home to mediums, psychics and healers, many practicing out of their homes.
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Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.
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Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Meanwhile, Blunt’s Margaret, a TV meteorologist, one day develops psychic powers linked to those secrets.
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The Week Us,
TheWeek,
14 June 2026
The other turns an industrial office space into an infinite realm of psychic dread.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychic
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In the press box, members of the Ecuadorian media cheered.
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In the weeks since, Indian media has reported several student suicides allegedly linked to the immense pressure of the exams, which Dipke and his supporters commemorated this week by lighting candles.
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The series produced genuinely chilling tales and characters, from Zeebo the Clown to mystical shop owner Sardo.
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Stepping into the Witch’s Cottage, North Hollywood’s latest mystical hangout, feels a bit like following a trail of breadcrumbs in a fairy tale.
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In this suspense thriller, Kipp — a telepathic Golden Retriever — is determined to protect Woody, a young non-verbal boy investigating the suspicious death of his father.
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The titular bear, who communicates with the girl through language—seemingly telepathic—plays a crucial role in her survival.
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For a brief and beautiful moment, Cary and I hoped Sister Elsie Peak would turn out to be named after Elsie Wheeler, a spiritualist medium whose own story relates to an astrological tool.
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Hungry for food, Suzanne wanders into the empty trailer of the carnival’s veteran spiritualist and winds up being mistaken for her.
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The mystic chords that bind us together matter more than any policy.
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Operating within those parameters, the mystic outlands trend extends to some of the world’s most mesmerizing corners.
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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.
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Nibert loved the free-thinking spirit of the village and its college.
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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.
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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.
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In both the real and metaphysical locations of the show, the backgrounds are all painted by hand, something which was pointed out took up a lot of time due to the number of paintings in the show and due to the number of montages.
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In the 18th century Samuel Johnson coined the term metaphysical poets to criticize Donne, John Cleveland, and Abraham Cowley.
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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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