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Few of these bets paid off, so the oddsmakers were seen less as clairvoyants than reliable indicators of who wouldn’t be accepting a medal in Stockholm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

But in tumultuous Myanmar, even clairvoyants urge caution.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

“Beyond Black,” a realistically toned novel, was set in a world of psychics and clairvoyants.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

Fairley offered to hold a dinner for Barker and a collection of astrologers, clairvoyants, and card readers, if he could write it up for the newspaper.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Newspapers asked fortune-tellers, or clairvoyants, where the painting was.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day