How to Use psychic in a Sentence

psychic

1 of 2 adjective
  • She claims to be psychic.
  • The loss could cost the Chiefs beyond just the psychic toll.
    Adam Kilgore, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Wednesday's powers come in the form of psychic visions of the past and future.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Nearby, a psychic sat down with guests for aura readings in the shade.
    Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 17 July 2022
  • Also, this just in: The cast of season 24 may indeed be psychic!
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Like that psychic kid's Magic 8 Ball in Papa's lab, signs point to yes.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 July 2022
  • The findings of the new study add to a growing body of work showing the psychic impact of extreme climate events.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • When Ernestine was pregnant with him, a psychic had told her that her boy was going to be a star.
    Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • If all this sounds more therapeutic than psychic, that’s not far from the truth.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Faith Pinho: Paulina told me that to save on costs, her family lived in the psychic shop.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In speaking with Blankson-Wood, the sense emerges of an artist with little time for psychic clutter.
    Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • There’s a reason Ricky and Sarah are psychic twins: Their childhoods all but tracked each other’s.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • To witness brutality is to sustain psychic damage: What the eye sees, the brain records and cannot erase.
    Corinne Dufka, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Johnson plays the psychic Cassie Webb, a paramedic with some sort of connection to Spider-Man.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If only a psychic could have warned us about these wretched Spider-Man spinoffs.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The great British psychic and tarot card reader (Heidi Gardner) comes out to predict the 2024 election.
    Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • For a company renowned for coddling its workers, the layoffs were a psychic shock.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • My own take is that you have been conditioned to diminish your own psychic wounds.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In Marjan’s classroom in a city not far from Tehran, language is the subject, but it’s the teacher who needs the psychic interpreter.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Speaking of the concierge, the staff to guest ratio at the villa during our inspection was five to four, and that meant that the service started to feel psychic.
    Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Like that one episode of Paranoia Agent, but shorter and without a looming evil psychic presence stalking the staff.
    Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Don't expect passing thrills to fill deeper psychic holes, though.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This version of Wednesday has psychic powers, like Eleven.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In my estimation, few films have reached the heights of Brian De Palma’s classic tale of psychic vengeance.
    Chloe Okuno, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But there is no avoiding the city’s damage, physical and psychic alike, onstage.
    New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • My favorite part of lip print reading didn’t have anything to do with Dustin’s psychic abilities, though.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2023
  • There is little research examining the psychic toll on people who had been close to those who kill.
    Jenna Russell, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • One woman, thanks to a warning from a psychic, saves her father from death by poisoning at the hands of her stepmother.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • West hadn't appeared in a film in 27 years, but on advice from a psychic, met with the young director who convinced her to make a triumphant-ish return.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Harmonic Journeys is well known for its holistic and psychic fairs throughout Northeast Ohio for the last 12 years.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 9 July 2022
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psychic

2 of 2 noun
  • She claims to be a psychic.
  • Your psychic will then lay out the tarot cards in a spread.
    Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Give your friend a chance to shake things up with the help of a local psychic.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Each shade has a psychic's stamp of approval, and the sign is even on the package.
    Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 23 Jan. 2018
  • At least the Future Crime division in the movie had the help of psychics.
    Thomas Massie, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Naomi arranged to meet the young psychic late one evening at the ruin of the school.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • When the pooch wasn’t found right away, Stimson spent $400 on pet psychics, to no avail.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 June 2017
  • Take the object of your affection to a psychic for an out-of-this-world date.
    Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Ramzi’s owner and the workers at FIDO don't have much faith in the psychics.
    John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In a tarot reading, your psychic will create a tarot spread of 10 cards.
    Norcal Marketing, Chron, 28 Jan. 2021
  • In the hallway outside, a bevy of psychics read tarot cards and palm lines, and gazed at crystal balls.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Next, the psychic at the seance asks if Luann has an uncle figure in her life.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Robertson, 51, from the Phoenix suburb of Litchfield Park, was on a tour of live psychic shows in Canada.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 16 June 2017
  • The program employed about a dozen psychics and mediums.
    CBS News, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The sitcom, which premieres Wednesday on Hulu, is about the dating life of a psychic.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
  • Every psychic gets their own domain and the potential client pool that comes with it.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • At an all-girl's Catholic school, one student commits suicide, which leads them to bring in a psychic to find out why.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • More psychics need to be setting up the dominoes for Angela Bassett movies.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, Menounos, 43, even revealed plans to connect with her late mother on the other side thanks to a psychic.
    Alex Cramer, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Based on the short film by Tim Curcio, Maggie follows a young woman trying to cope with life as a psychic.
    Lynette Rice, EW.com, 18 May 2021
  • After a psychic is murdered, a musician and a journalist work to find the killer.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The thing that struck me watching Look Into My Eyes is that the customers and psychics are there for similar reasons.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • What a shame, though, that his carnival tent-top of psychic pain is pitched upon such poisoned ground.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2019
  • His mom always had a bit of spiritual bent, and her friends had gone to psychics before.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Do a web search on a prospective psychic to see if their reputation is clean.
    Dallas News, 26 May 2022
  • He’s called a psychic, a yogi and more by his ardent followers.
    Ken Jaworowski, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • There are no tarot cards, no crystal ball and no palm reading in this New Orleans psychic's office.
    Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Players can play Inquisitors, Space Marines, orks, psychics and more at the same table.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • So Politics Extra phoned up a Bible scholar and psychic on Monday to get a fresh take.
    Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • To be sure, most people don’t have the luxury of building an extensive psychic moat to protect them from the news.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2018

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