How to Use psychic in a Sentence

psychic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • She claims to be psychic.
  • The loss could cost the Chiefs beyond just the psychic toll.
    — Adam Kilgore, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Wednesday's powers come in the form of psychic visions of the past and future.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Nearby, a psychic sat down with guests for aura readings in the shade.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 17 July 2022
  • Also, this just in: The cast of season 24 may indeed be psychic!
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Like that psychic kid's Magic 8 Ball in Papa's lab, signs point to yes.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 July 2022
  • The findings of the new study add to a growing body of work showing the psychic impact of extreme climate events.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • When Ernestine was pregnant with him, a psychic had told her that her boy was going to be a star.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • If all this sounds more therapeutic than psychic, that’s not far from the truth.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Faith Pinho: Paulina told me that to save on costs, her family lived in the psychic shop.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In speaking with Blankson-Wood, the sense emerges of an artist with little time for psychic clutter.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • There’s a reason Ricky and Sarah are psychic twins: Their childhoods all but tracked each other’s.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • To witness brutality is to sustain psychic damage: What the eye sees, the brain records and cannot erase.
    — Corinne Dufka, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Johnson plays the psychic Cassie Webb, a paramedic with some sort of connection to Spider-Man.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If only a psychic could have warned us about these wretched Spider-Man spinoffs.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The great British psychic and tarot card reader (Heidi Gardner) comes out to predict the 2024 election.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • For a company renowned for coddling its workers, the layoffs were a psychic shock.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • My own take is that you have been conditioned to diminish your own psychic wounds.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In Marjan’s classroom in a city not far from Tehran, language is the subject, but it’s the teacher who needs the psychic interpreter.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Speaking of the concierge, the staff to guest ratio at the villa during our inspection was five to four, and that meant that the service started to feel psychic.
    — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Like that one episode of Paranoia Agent, but shorter and without a looming evil psychic presence stalking the staff.
    — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Don't expect passing thrills to fill deeper psychic holes, though.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This version of Wednesday has psychic powers, like Eleven.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In my estimation, few films have reached the heights of Brian De Palma’s classic tale of psychic vengeance.
    — Chloe Okuno, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • But there is no avoiding the city’s damage, physical and psychic alike, onstage.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • My favorite part of lip print reading didn’t have anything to do with Dustin’s psychic abilities, though.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 19 Oct. 2023
  • There is little research examining the psychic toll on people who had been close to those who kill.
    — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • One woman, thanks to a warning from a psychic, saves her father from death by poisoning at the hands of her stepmother.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • West hadn't appeared in a film in 27 years, but on advice from a psychic, met with the young director who convinced her to make a triumphant-ish return.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Harmonic Journeys is well known for its holistic and psychic fairs throughout Northeast Ohio for the last 12 years.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 9 July 2022
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psychic

2 of 2 noun
  • She claims to be a psychic.
  • Your psychic will then lay out the tarot cards in a spread.
    — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Give your friend a chance to shake things up with the help of a local psychic.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Each shade has a psychic's stamp of approval, and the sign is even on the package.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 23 Jan. 2018
  • At least the Future Crime division in the movie had the help of psychics.
    — Thomas Massie, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Naomi arranged to meet the young psychic late one evening at the ruin of the school.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • When the pooch wasn’t found right away, Stimson spent $400 on pet psychics, to no avail.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 June 2017
  • Take the object of your affection to a psychic for an out-of-this-world date.
    — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Ramzi’s owner and the workers at FIDO don't have much faith in the psychics.
    — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In a tarot reading, your psychic will create a tarot spread of 10 cards.
    — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 28 Jan. 2021
  • In the hallway outside, a bevy of psychics read tarot cards and palm lines, and gazed at crystal balls.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Next, the psychic at the seance asks if Luann has an uncle figure in her life.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Robertson, 51, from the Phoenix suburb of Litchfield Park, was on a tour of live psychic shows in Canada.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 16 June 2017
  • The program employed about a dozen psychics and mediums.
    — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The sitcom, which premieres Wednesday on Hulu, is about the dating life of a psychic.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
  • Every psychic gets their own domain and the potential client pool that comes with it.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • At an all-girl's Catholic school, one student commits suicide, which leads them to bring in a psychic to find out why.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • More psychics need to be setting up the dominoes for Angela Bassett movies.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, Menounos, 43, even revealed plans to connect with her late mother on the other side thanks to a psychic.
    — Alex Cramer, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Based on the short film by Tim Curcio, Maggie follows a young woman trying to cope with life as a psychic.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 18 May 2021
  • After a psychic is murdered, a musician and a journalist work to find the killer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The thing that struck me watching Look Into My Eyes is that the customers and psychics are there for similar reasons.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • What a shame, though, that his carnival tent-top of psychic pain is pitched upon such poisoned ground.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2019
  • His mom always had a bit of spiritual bent, and her friends had gone to psychics before.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Do a web search on a prospective psychic to see if their reputation is clean.
    — Dallas News, 26 May 2022
  • He’s called a psychic, a yogi and more by his ardent followers.
    — Ken Jaworowski, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • There are no tarot cards, no crystal ball and no palm reading in this New Orleans psychic's office.
    — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Players can play Inquisitors, Space Marines, orks, psychics and more at the same table.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • So Politics Extra phoned up a Bible scholar and psychic on Monday to get a fresh take.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • To be sure, most people don’t have the luxury of building an extensive psychic moat to protect them from the news.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2018

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