spiritists

plural of spiritist
as in psychics
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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psychics
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  • 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
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“Spiritists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritists. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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