How to Use clairvoyant in a Sentence

clairvoyant

1 of 2 adjective
  • That strategy now reads as clairvoyant.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Lorraine is clairvoyant, but their connection runs deeper than that.
    — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • Spiegel also noted that Märtha Louise claimed to be a clairvoyant herself.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2019
  • To hear the book was finished in May 2020 feels almost clairvoyant.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The leader of a band of desert mercenaries is hired to kill a ruthless despot and his clairvoyant sorceress.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Turns out surprising a woman with clairvoyant powers is no easy task, even for a sixth-generation shaman.
    — Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Polls aren’t clairvoyant—especially if an election is close, which was the case in many of the recent surprises.
    — Marcus Woo, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Hall’s clairvoyant was not your typical fortune teller.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • While not everything in that column turned out to be prescient (no one is clairvoyant), there were nuggets that some readers hopefully took to heart.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • That thinking seemed clairvoyant after Murray was injured during the warm-up before the first game of the playoffs.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Tuesday, however, was worthy of the award, so maybe the CHL was clairvoyant.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • But while Davis’ warnings proved almost clairvoyant, the fund has yet to hit the jackpot due to freakish circumstances in the debt market.
    — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Norway’s princess, Märtha Louise, claims to be a clairvoyant who can communicate with angels.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And then Riley’s clairvoyant sketches as a teenager point Mia toward going out to the amusement park.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Macintyre is a spirit worker — a clairvoyant medium, to be exact — and does her tarot readings out of a modern, cozy home office.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • So while bats aren't actually clairvoyant, those of them that track insects are highly accurate hunters that rely on more than just visual cues.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There, the clairvoyant siblings do battle with the Grabber from beyond the grave, and reckon with the truth behind their mother’s death.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There are nights when Green seems not just perceptive, but clairvoyant—working in advance of developments that have yet to occur.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • At the time, many people in the business world considered Byrne to be an almost clairvoyant entrepreneur.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The team has the authority to make its arrests based on the visions of three clairvoyant individuals who can see into the future.
    — Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
  • From clairvoyant camels to mystic elephants and cryptic rats, a range of animals -- big and small -- have tried their paws, hooves and tentacles at predicting the score line.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The downgrade made then-Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, seem clairvoyant.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • His most recent effort was prescient and clairvoyant and deserved to be in the Palm Readers Hall of Fame.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • There was no opportunity here for the non-clairvoyant investor to have profited (except perhaps by shorting the news out of sheer pessimism).
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • At the center is Lin Shaye's Elise Rainier, a clairvoyant demonologist.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The Aston is a steady and calm interstate cruiser, with a smooth ride and a steering system that imparts a clairvoyant sense of straight ahead through its nicely contoured wheel.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2022
  • This is why Pisceans are considered the most empathetic, clairvoyant, and creative sign of the zodiac.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 19 Feb. 2023
  • In 2005, Stenner offered a prediction that seems clairvoyant now.
    — Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2016
  • The eight-speed automatic transmission goes clairvoyant, picking the perfect gear for any corner and shifting with near-dual-clutch quickness.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The sellout crowd at the American Airlines Center proved clairvoyant.
    — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022

clairvoyant

2 of 2 noun
  • Then a friend told her that a clairvoyant had a message for her.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The fill-in turned out to be the clairvoyant’s former classmate.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The clairvoyant then watched his team record a three-spot against the Tigers in the opening frame.
    — Zack Meisel, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
  • Even the mystical master, a clairvoyant who warns people of scams, has something to gain.
    — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • During their session, the clairvoyant claimed that a woman wanted to convey a message about her heart.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Is there a difference between a psychic medium and a clairvoyant?
    — Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • During this same period, clairvoyants were quite the rage in England.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The renowned clairvoyant opened up about the surgery in a 2023 Instagram post.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • And why won’t anyone talk with her about Uncle Bruno, the clairvoyant who disappeared years ago?
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2021
  • What’s the difference between a psychic medium and a clairvoyant?
    — Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, a clairvoyant is someone who can see into the future and provide fortune-telling services.
    — Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • There are repeat run-ins with clairvoyants, bodies floating in water, and admiring touches of hands.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The flaws of each character will surprise and perhaps even enchant you — and only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book’s ending.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • Tyler The Hollywood Medium, has quickly become one of the most in-demand clairvoyants out there.
    — The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Honestly, Musk himself and certain gifted clairvoyants are in the best position for predictions in that realm.
    — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Shotgunning is a common technique in cold readings where the false clairvoyant will fire off several general statements and watch for a reaction to any of them.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Two clairvoyants encouraged Latoya to move out of the house, but that wasn’t financially feasible for the family at the time.
    — Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
  • In another episode, Wagner speaks to a woman who visited a clairvoyant who believed that her father was being poisoned, which turned out to be true.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The origin story stars Dakota Johnson as the title character, a clairvoyant with abilities to see into the spider world.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Earlier this month, Dakota Johnson was cast as Madame Web, a blind clairvoyant with ties to the multiverse, in a future standalone movie.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Cassandra is a clairvoyant who needs to protect three young women who are destined to develop superpowers who are targeted by a powerful assassin.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • McCorristine goes so far as to describe clairvoyants as a medium of communication, a ridiculous assertion.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Spare and rhapsodic, Eartheater is set on the margins of an unnamed Latin American city and follows a teenage clairvoyant who communes with the dead by eating dirt.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The family sought religious counsel and advice from clairvoyants who claimed that more than 200 demons or spirits controlled the Carolina Street home.
    — Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra Webb in the film, a clairvoyant who needs to protect the trio from a supervillain to wants to kill them before the women become too powerful.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • In another flabbergasting turn, a magazine writer found a clairvoyant in the Netherlands who professed to confirm the story in detail and added that Crater’s body was buried in the basement of the house.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • In that ruling, the judge explained that there are already enough roadblocks and players in homeownership between the appraiser, contractor, agent, and more, so adding a clairvoyant to the list is just another complication.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 27 July 2022
  • Sure, there are some fights – most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019
  • Sure, there are some fights — most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019

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