as in mediums
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead
a celebrity psychic who managed to convince at least some people that their deceased loved ones were using him to relay messages
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Recent Examples of psychics
The town, about 25 miles southwest of Daytona Beach, Florida, is home to mediums, psychics and healers, many practicing out of their homes.
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Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Over the years, several psychics, mediums, and paranormal investigators have come aboard the ship hoping for ghostly encounters.
—Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
While ferrying Camila from playdates to pet psychics, Issa realizes the dog’s bark is worse than her bite—much like Camila’s attractive, yet reclusive owner, Theo (Famous in Love’s Carter Jenkins).
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
Willing to try anything, Mary began speaking to alleged psychics.
—Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
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
The true purpose of these Institutes is to pinpoint and develop precogs, psychics with the ability to foresee the future.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Exhausting all resources, Cuellar has sought out six different psychics to locate Teddy.
—Olivia Cyrus
august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Over the years, several psychics, mediums, and paranormal investigators have come aboard the ship hoping for ghostly encounters.
—Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2025
While ferrying Camila from playdates to pet psychics, Issa realizes the dog’s bark is worse than her bite—much like Camila’s attractive, yet reclusive owner, Theo (Famous in Love’s Carter Jenkins).
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
Willing to try anything, Mary began speaking to alleged psychics.
—Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
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
The true purpose of these Institutes is to pinpoint and develop precogs, psychics with the ability to foresee the future.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Exhausting all resources, Cuellar has sought out six different psychics to locate Teddy.
—Olivia Cyrus
august 8, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychics
Noun
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Meanwhile, media outlets have begun reopening their airwaves to critical voices banished in recent years.—
EGINA GARCIA CANO,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026
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This strategy of sending the notes to the media could be designed to ratchet up pressure, said Eric O’Neill, a former FBI counterintelligence operative and cybersecurity expert.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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Disappointed with mainstream health care, Mihich sought help from energy healers, spiritualists, and other alternative-medicine practitioners and entrepreneurs, who regularly supported her aversion to psychiatric medications, according to Sarah and Torina.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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There was a big movement at the time — because so many people were killed in the Civil War, and so many women were losing children — of spiritualists, who were almost all women, who would speak to the dead.—
Mike Miller,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Psychics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychics. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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