How to Use clairvoyant in a Sentence

clairvoyant

1 of 2 adjective
  • To hear the book was finished in May 2020 feels almost clairvoyant.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Or since the birth of the world's most famous – the world's only famous? – Christian clairvoyant.
    Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Tuesday, however, was worthy of the award, so maybe the CHL was clairvoyant.
    Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • His most recent effort was prescient and clairvoyant and deserved to be in the Palm Readers Hall of Fame.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Spiegel also noted that Märtha Louise claimed to be a clairvoyant herself.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But while Davis’ warnings proved almost clairvoyant, the fund has yet to hit the jackpot due to freakish circumstances in the debt market.
    Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The leader of a band of desert mercenaries is hired to kill a ruthless despot and his clairvoyant sorceress.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • That thinking seemed clairvoyant after Murray was injured during the warm-up before the first game of the playoffs.
    Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
  • At the center is Lin Shaye's Elise Rainier, a clairvoyant demonologist.
    Tom Philip, GQ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Polls aren’t clairvoyant—especially if an election is close, which was the case in many of the recent surprises.
    Marcus Woo, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019
  • While not everything in that column turned out to be prescient (no one is clairvoyant), there were nuggets that some readers hopefully took to heart.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The Aston is a steady and calm interstate cruiser, with a smooth ride and a steering system that imparts a clairvoyant sense of straight ahead through its nicely contoured wheel.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Talking on the phone hours later, Abrams at times sounds overwhelmed by the news, even when others (including that clairvoyant fan in Denver) could have seen this coming.
    Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • From clairvoyant camels to mystic elephants and cryptic rats, a range of animals -- big and small -- have tried their paws, hooves and tentacles at predicting the score line.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • At the time, many people in the business world considered Byrne to be an almost clairvoyant entrepreneur.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The team has the authority to make its arrests based on the visions of three clairvoyant individuals who can see into the future.
    Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The sellout crowd at the American Airlines Center proved clairvoyant.
    Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The downgrade made then-Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, seem clairvoyant.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Macintyre is a spirit worker — a clairvoyant medium, to be exact — and does her tarot readings out of a modern, cozy home office.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • Gardiner has made space, too, for other lovely turns: Matthew Lamb is a delight as the Little Boy, an upper-crust kid with a common touch and a weird clairvoyant inkling of impending war.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • There are nights when Green seems not just perceptive, but clairvoyant—working in advance of developments that have yet to occur.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Turns out surprising a woman with clairvoyant powers is no easy task, even for a sixth-generation shaman.
    Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 2 Oct. 2022
  • First introduced in Spider-Man comics in the 1980s, Madame Web is a blind clairvoyant woman who lived in a complex life-support system resembling a spider web.
    Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
  • In 2005, Stenner offered a prediction that seems clairvoyant now.
    Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2016
  • Frankie's in trouble with the mob boss of Chicago's western suburbs, where most of the action takes place, and they're all being tracked by a government agent who had worked with their clairvoyant mother decades earlier.
    Gary K. Wolfe, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • The author would have been on more solid ground to explore the clairvoyant aspect of the search as a manifestation of the grief experienced by Lady Franklin and British society.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • This is why Pisceans are considered the most empathetic, clairvoyant, and creative sign of the zodiac.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Lorraine is clairvoyant, but their connection runs deeper than that.
    Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • There was no opportunity here for the non-clairvoyant investor to have profited (except perhaps by shorting the news out of sheer pessimism).
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • So while bats aren't actually clairvoyant, those of them that track insects are highly accurate hunters that rely on more than just visual cues.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
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clairvoyant

2 of 2 noun
  • And why won’t anyone talk with her about Uncle Bruno, the clairvoyant who disappeared years ago?
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Even the mystical master, a clairvoyant who warns people of scams, has something to gain.
    Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Tyler The Hollywood Medium, has quickly become one of the most in-demand clairvoyants out there.
    The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 9 Mar. 2018
  • During their session, the clairvoyant claimed that a woman wanted to convey a message about her heart.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
  • During this same period, clairvoyants were quite the rage in England.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Henry, a well known clairvoyant, gives psychic readings to celebrities on his E!
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 1 June 2017
  • What’s the difference between a psychic medium and a clairvoyant?
    Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Earlier this month, Dakota Johnson was cast as Madame Web, a blind clairvoyant with ties to the multiverse, in a future standalone movie.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Is there a difference between a psychic medium and a clairvoyant?
    Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Sure, there are some fights — most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • Sure, there are some fights – most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child.
    The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019
  • Meanwhile, a clairvoyant is someone who can see into the future and provide fortune-telling services.
    Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The flaws of each character will surprise and perhaps even enchant you — and only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book’s ending.
    New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • Spare and rhapsodic, Eartheater is set on the margins of an unnamed Latin American city and follows a teenage clairvoyant who communes with the dead by eating dirt.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • In another flabbergasting turn, a magazine writer found a clairvoyant in the Netherlands who professed to confirm the story in detail and added that Crater’s body was buried in the basement of the house.
    Edward Kosner, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • The origin story stars Dakota Johnson as the title character, a clairvoyant with abilities to see into the spider world.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Shotgunning is a common technique in cold readings where the false clairvoyant will fire off several general statements and watch for a reaction to any of them.
    Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Honestly, Musk himself and certain gifted clairvoyants are in the best position for predictions in that realm.
    Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • In another episode, Wagner speaks to a woman who visited a clairvoyant who believed that her father was being poisoned, which turned out to be true.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Among Lady Jane’s nearly two hundred journals and two thousand letters are some that describe her dabbling in the paranormal, going to seers and clairvoyants, to connect to her husband.
    National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2017
  • This was a fruitful time for New Yorkers with spiritual interests, and Dr. Newbrough fell into the eclectic circles of the city, visiting many seers and clairvoyants.
    Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • That person, who also goes under my name, is supposed to be a cinema clairvoyant who can predict the winners of six main Oscar categories several days before they are revealed on TV.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In that ruling, the judge explained that there are already enough roadblocks and players in homeownership between the appraiser, contractor, agent, and more, so adding a clairvoyant to the list is just another complication.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 27 July 2022
  • McCorristine goes so far as to describe clairvoyants as a medium of communication, a ridiculous assertion.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • While fortune-tellers, psychics and mystics have adopted unconventional and unreliable methods to infer our futures, modern clairvoyants have more robust methodologies at their disposal.
    Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
  • And why won’t anyone talk with her about Uncle Bruno, the clairvoyant who disappeared years ago?
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Even the mystical master, a clairvoyant who warns people of scams, has something to gain.
    Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Tyler The Hollywood Medium, has quickly become one of the most in-demand clairvoyants out there.
    The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 9 Mar. 2018
  • During their session, the clairvoyant claimed that a woman wanted to convey a message about her heart.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
  • During this same period, clairvoyants were quite the rage in England.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019

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