as in mediums
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 psychics
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.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Over the years, several psychics, mediums, and paranormal investigators have come aboard the ship hoping for ghostly encounters.
—Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
While ferrying Camila from playdates to pet psychics, Issa realizes the dog’s bark is worse than her bite—much like Camila’s attractive, yet reclusive owner, Theo (Famous in Love’s Carter Jenkins).
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
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
The true purpose of these Institutes is to pinpoint and develop precogs, psychics with the ability to foresee the future.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Exhausting all resources, Cuellar has sought out six different psychics to locate Teddy.
—Olivia Cyrus
august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Over the years, several psychics, mediums, and paranormal investigators have come aboard the ship hoping for ghostly encounters.
—Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
While ferrying Camila from playdates to pet psychics, Issa realizes the dog’s bark is worse than her bite—much like Camila’s attractive, yet reclusive owner, Theo (Famous in Love’s Carter Jenkins).
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
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
The true purpose of these Institutes is to pinpoint and develop precogs, psychics with the ability to foresee the future.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Exhausting all resources, Cuellar has sought out six different psychics to locate Teddy.
—Olivia Cyrus
august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychics
mediums
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The new foreign media legislation, introduced by Likud lawmaker Ariel Kallner and backed by Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition, would make such powers permanent — even outside times of war or national emergency — and remove the requirement for judicial oversight.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Hoss, now fifty, has alternated between the two mediums ever since.—
Alex Barasch,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Psychics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychics. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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