How to Use telepathy in a Sentence

telepathy

noun
  • As long as people play fair and with good spirits of course telepathy will end up occurring.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Daily Southtown, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The machines will use a form of inter-android telepathy one minute, then fail to exploit its usefulness the next.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
  • That means Andre was aware of the risk to his health and still tried to use his magnetic telepathy to move the door at Elmira.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, the three will have some magical powers of their own, including telekinesis, telepathy, and the ability to stop time.
    — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 20 July 2018
  • Her books are often known to feature mysteries involving children or telepathy.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Tobii’s response was that eye-tracking isn’t necessarily across-the-room telepathy.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Most often, though, telepathy seems to stand merely for an unremarkable human faculty.
    — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Harness your natural telepathy by dressing as a fortune teller this Halloween.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The mere chance to see a band with its original lineup intact and airtight through a lifetime of musical telepathy trumps any and all possible pyrotechnics.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2018
  • Is Eleven the only one capable of excavating these memories through telepathy?
    — Time, 4 July 2019
  • There was also someone in another part of the Defense Ministry looking into telepathy.
    — David Furst, National Geographic, 19 June 2016
  • Well, Masa has even presented on telepathy (which seemed to me an eerie coincidence to the Harbinger character Harada).
    — Jason Kothari, Quartz India, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Andre planned on manipulating a metal maintenance pipe using his magnetic telepathy.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Musk hopes the implant, created by his brain-computer interface startup Neuralink, could one day help quadriplegics control smartphones, and perhaps even endow users with a sort of telepathy.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
  • The wide-ranging records include a letter from a woman claiming that her mental telepathy indicated Earhart was still alive, and another from a man claiming her grave was located in Spain.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Super sight, super muscles, super hearing, and telepathy could have profound implications on the broader society, implications that could slow down or speed up the military’s adoption.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The teenagers of Xavier’s institute, who were once shielded from the public through Xavier’s telepathy are now adults and have disbanded and gone their separate ways after the defeat of Magneto.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2019
  • Today, two-thirds of Americans believe that angels and demons exist; a third believe that climate change is a hoax; almost a quarter believe that vaccines cause autism; only a third strongly disbelieve in telepathy and ghosts.
    — Kurt Andersen, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The only way Chevy could improve the MyLink interaction experience would be by incorporating telepathy.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Getting in good positions but lacking the necessary telepathy with his new team mates, meaning his usual big end product figures (10 goals and six assists in 25 Bundesliga league appearances last season) aren’t there.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • However, Golding’s strongly sensory work — told primarily from the perspective of Lok, the Everyman — leans more heavily on imagination (including a kind of pictorial telepathy) than on research.
    — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • The lecture mixed neurological theory and armchair anthropology, and ranged over subjects including premonitions, telepathy, hypnotism, hallucinations, and epileptic and migrainous aura.
    — Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018

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