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clairvoyant

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Definition of clairvoyant

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 of clairvoyant Lalami’s update to this premise is that preemptive arrests are now powered not by human clairvoyants but by AI, which trawls our dreams in real time. — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, The Dial, 2 Dec. 2025 Set in the eerie streets of Victorian London, horror drama series Penny Dreadful features Green as Vanessa Ives, a troubled but powerful clairvoyant, working alongside Sir Malcolm, an explorer driven to find his missing daughter. — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 Among the 10 defendants seen arriving at the Paris Criminal Court in the French capital’s 17th arrondissement on Monday were Aurélien Poirson-Atlan, who posts under the pseudonym Zoé Sagan, as well as a clairvoyant named as Delphine Jegousse, who goes under the pseudonym of Amandine Roy. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025 Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels. — Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for clairvoyant

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Orlando Police were flooded with tips, including from psychics, about the disappearances of Jennifer Kesse in 2006 and Michelle Parker in 2011, the research paper said.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026
Though unusual, unorthodox and often a last resort, police departments at times call on psychics to help redirect detectives who’ve looked at the same facts and evidence time and again.

— Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026

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