How to Use psychic in a Sentence

psychic

1 of 2 adjective
  • She claims to be psychic.
  • Okay, one point for the psychic.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Bodies are piling up and her psychic powers start to come in very handy.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What should be a perfect evening turns into chaos with the arrival of a psychic.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Nearby, a psychic sat down with guests for aura readings in the shade.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 17 July 2022
  • The psychic told them that George was murdered and buried in the basement.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Point Man can fight off a ghost, her other son, their psychic soldiers.
    — Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • If all this sounds more therapeutic than psychic, that’s not far from the truth.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Don’t be surprised if weird dreams or psychic downloads feel stronger than ever.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
  • At first Freud assumes that the scene at the lake might be the site of the psychic trauma.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Her psychic abilities won’t show her who this stalker is.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The gauze gives me psychic abilities.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • The wine-loving psychic is wearing a silky robe paired with pearls, palm trees behind her.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Only time will tell if Guacamole is psychic.
    — Rhyma Castillo, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The moon’s clash with Mercury scrambles your psychic radar.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Don't expect passing thrills to fill deeper psychic holes, though.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But Kyle carries her own psychic baggage.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • My own take is that you have been conditioned to diminish your own psychic wounds.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Don’t numb your psychic wounds, but also don’t over-catastrophize.
    — Karen Magruder, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Wednesday's powers come in the form of psychic visions of the past and future.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Shirley Jackson had four kids and dirty hair, plus psychic tendencies.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • There’s something in me that wants to learn about ghosts, mediums, psychic energy, aliens.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Someone get that chat-naming psychic on the phone and find out if she’s talked to Deux Moi.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Faced with the psychic pain of cognitive dissonance, our minds look for ways to resolve it.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Gaga herself appears in the sixth episode as a psychic teacher at the fictional school.
    — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For a company renowned for coddling its workers, the layoffs were a psychic shock.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • These defenses exact a psychic toll as well as an economic one.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • If your story involves cloning, time travel, psychic powers, fine.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This change, such as online psychic services, has become an option, but there are so many options now.
    — Malana Vantyler, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026

psychic

2 of 2 noun
  • She claims to be a psychic.
  • The pet psychic was ready to listen.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • Naomi arranged to meet the young psychic late one evening at the ruin of the school.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Take the object of your affection to a psychic for an out-of-this-world date.
    — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Do a web search on a prospective psychic to see if their reputation is clean.
    — Dallas News, 26 May 2022
  • Maggie is about a young female psychic who can already see her future.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 14 May 2021
  • Every psychic gets their own domain and the potential client pool that comes with it.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Next, the psychic at the seance asks if Luann has an uncle figure in her life.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
  • He’s called a psychic, a yogi and more by his ardent followers.
    — Ken Jaworowski, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • His mom always had a bit of spiritual bent, and her friends had gone to psychics before.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Detectives followed thousands of leads, some of which came from psychics.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
  • 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
  • At least the Future Crime division in the movie had the help of psychics.
    — Thomas Massie, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Brown no longer does cold reading and, in his shows, has ridiculed psychics and discredited their techniques.
    — Adam Green, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • After a psychic is murdered, a musician and a journalist work to find the killer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Several psychics tried to intervene, seeking to help find the boy with their powers.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
  • More psychics need to be setting up the dominoes for Angela Bassett movies.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But my player-character is the perfect psychic, soul-reading, pirate lord for the job.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 4 June 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
  • 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
  • The sitcom, which premieres Wednesday on Hulu, is about the dating life of a psychic.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
  • The psychic rebuked the younger woman for not parking in back as usual; the front spot was evidently reserved for clients.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Picking the right Niners running back to use on any particular week may require the skills of a psychic.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Ramzi’s owner and the workers at FIDO don't have much faith in the psychics.
    — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Willing to try anything, Mary began speaking to alleged psychics.
    — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025

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