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
Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 May 2025
Bud & Rita dispensaries are featuring a variety of special events this week, including psychics, caricature artists, glassblowing and ashtray painting.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
When Stef pays her a visit, her grandmother sees she’s received her psychic gift, and passes on her years of (terrifying) research.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
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Noun
Lowe claimed of his conversations with Paxton's spirit Paxton, an actor known for movies like Aliens and Twister, died suddenly at 61 in 2017 due to complications from surgery
Rob Lowe has dabbled in meetings with mediums and psychics, and said he's found his late friend Bill Paxton in the process.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 May 2025
Bud & Rita dispensaries are featuring a variety of special events this week, including psychics, caricature artists, glassblowing and ashtray painting.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
His primary instruction for those trying to tap into their psychic power is to concentrate.
—Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
When Stef pays her a visit, her grandmother sees she’s received her psychic gift, and passes on her years of (terrifying) research.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
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The message does not specifically say which scene Baldoni is referring to but his lawsuit against Lively mentions tension over a rooftop scene in the film that Lively rewrote and presented to Baldoni as her own work before telling media outlets that her husband, Reynolds, actually wrote it.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and may be published in any medium.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Those who forgave depicted the moment in mystical terms—unpremeditated, unexpected, the words just flowed.—
Kevin Sack,
Time,
3 June 2025
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Astrology is not a central feature of Jewish practice, though elements similar to it do appear in Jewish mystical tradition and ancient rabbinic sources, including references to the constellations of the Zodiac.—
Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 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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Further, there’s some worry that by spending thousands of years finding and gentling (or executing) male channelers, humanity has begun to self-select channeling out of the gene pool.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 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
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This book contains the first English translation of the writings of af Klint, a Swedish painter and mystic.—
Melissa Febos,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2025
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The author also varies the texture of the book by inserting poems, quotations, dramatic dialogue, a veiled account of her unhappy days at boarding school, and a lengthy digression on the German mystic Friederike Hauffe, who claimed to be clairvoyant and to communicate with spirits.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 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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Shauna speaks with Jackie all the time, but this was sort of a new metaphysical space for the show.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Cage’s haunted delivery, contrasting powerfully with Knell’s anxious, terrified giggling, gives the scene a metaphysical kick.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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Watson has not publicly commented on the lawsuit but continues to post videos to his YouTube channel.—
Theo Karantsalis,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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Beyond Tehran, Iranian news channel IRINN reports that there were airstrikes on the city of Natanz, which is home to a key nuclear facility.—
Christina Wilkie,Anniek Bao,Riya Bhattacharjee,
CNBC,
13 June 2025
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“Psychic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychic. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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