as in psychic
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead
a 19th-century spiritist whose claims of communicating with spirits through rapping sounds were eventually debunked
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psychic
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Whoopi Goldberg is the fake psychic who has a hint of actual psychic power that she's forgotten about.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
14 May 2025 -
While MacKinnon says she's always had a special connection with animals, her first visit with a pet psychic in 2001 changed her perspective.—
Athena Sobhan,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Spiritist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritist. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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