as in sixth sense
the power of seeing or knowing about things that are not present to the senses
people who claim to have clairvoyance are sometimes asked to help locate missing persons
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Recent Examples of clairvoyance
Poets Photo: Taylor Swift via YouTube In The Tortured Poets Department, American bard and billionaire Taylor Swift invokes the story of Cassandra, the Trojan princess who receives the gift of clairvoyance from the Greek god Apollo, a lover who later curses her never to be believed.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
The authors of these three centennial volumes claim no clairvoyance about history’s intention.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
The state of things highlights another example of the late MF DOOM’s clairvoyance.
—C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024
Most of the visual effects, in terms of the clairvoyance, were done in camera with me and a diopter, making a lot of noise and smashing glass against glass and a flashlight.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
The authors of these three centennial volumes claim no clairvoyance about history’s intention.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
The state of things highlights another example of the late MF DOOM’s clairvoyance.
—C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024
Most of the visual effects, in terms of the clairvoyance, were done in camera with me and a diopter, making a lot of noise and smashing glass against glass and a flashlight.
—Simon Thompson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clairvoyance
Noun
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He’s got that sixth sense as a scorer to find holes in coverage and in goalies to finish plays at a higher rate than most.—
Scott Wheeler,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Prediction markets are tapping into this sixth sense of humans, giving each of us a role in shaping the story of our world.—
Mahesh Vinayagam,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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The next year, Schmeisser marched into a large conference room at Army Research Office headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to pitch a research project to investigate synthetic telepathy for soldiers.—
Adam Piore,
Discover Magazine,
1 Mar. 2012
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These detector settings allow Alice and Bob to ask the particles different questions; an additional trick to throw off their apparent telepathy.—
Daniel Garisto,
Scientific American,
6 Oct. 2022
Noun
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The Cowardly Lion is a member of a half-human, half-animal race enslaved by Azkadellia for their powers of second sight.—
Emma Stefansky,
Vulture,
26 Nov. 2024
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The books follow protagonists who strive to become young artists in a crumbling economy, inherit second sight while spilling with grief, and deal with the reality of our grave present.—
Zoe Guy,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2024
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The only other major parapsychology unit in the United States was Princeton’s Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, or PEAR, which focused on telekinesis and extrasensory perception.—
Saskia Solomon,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Does a person accept, say, poltergeists, but not extrasensory perception?—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
14 Nov. 2024
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“Clairvoyance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clairvoyance. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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