Thesaurus results for CLAIRVOYANT

clairvoyant

noun

as in psychic

a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead Worried the house may be haunted, the family hired a clairvoyant to interpret its energy.

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Recent Examples on the Web The fill-in turned out to be the clairvoyant’s former classmate. —

J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 Indeed, Park Geun-hye’s father reportedly sought the advice of clairvoyants and shamans while president, a common practice among modern political and business elites. —

Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016 This novel follows Lizzie Craig, a young clairvoyant who lives on a farm with her grandparents in nineteenth-century Scotland. —

The New Yorker, 12 June 2024 There are repeat run-ins with clairvoyants, bodies floating in water, and admiring touches of hands. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for clairvoyant

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