as in psychic
someone who is able to know another person's thoughts without being told what they are; someone who is able to read minds
How was I supposed to know what you were thinking? I'm no mind reader.
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Recent Examples of mind reader
On the other side, the doctor is not a mind reader.
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Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
People are not mind readers.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
Zach Collins does not profess to be a mind reader.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2023
But our shoppers aren't mind readers.
—Sharath Rao, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2021
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Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
People are not mind readers.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
Zach Collins does not profess to be a mind reader.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2023
But our shoppers aren't mind readers.
—Sharath Rao, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2021
See All Example Sentences for mind reader
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mind reader
Noun
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Willing to try anything, Mary began speaking to alleged psychics.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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Murderous beasts, brain-eating zombies, a school filled with werewolves, psychics and other Outcasts, and a tangle of mysteries.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Presented as an academic study of destructively codependent telepaths, Stereo is basically a dry run to the later Scanners, emphasis on the dry.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Her tales of power-hungry telepaths and erotic alien encounters are now canonical, in science fiction and beyond.—
Stephen Kearse,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
15 Sep. 2025
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The simmering tension between media companies and Google over the search giant’s use of those companies’ journalism in its AI products has just spilled over into a new courtroom battle.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Mind reader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mind%20reader. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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