ESP
extrasensory perception: perception or communication outside of normal sensory capability, as in telepathy and clairvoyance.
ESP
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ESP
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extrasensory perception
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English for Specific ( or Special) Purposes: the technique of teaching English to students who need it for a particular purpose, such as business dealings
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electronic stability programme: an electronic system that automatically stabilizes a road vehicle that is being oversteered or is in danger of rolling over by selectively applying individual brakes
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He became fascinated by the anthropology of the abnormal—from trance states to traditional magical practices to the possibility of ESP.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2024
Quirk was always a few covers away: The Day The Martians Landed, screamed one headline, with two alien spaceships looming dramatically; or ESP: Fact Or Fiction, as part of a series of "eternal controversies".
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
They were well-meaning spiritual seekers who found a sense of purpose through the group’s “Executive Success Program” — or ESP — personal development seminars supposedly designed to help people overcome their “limiting beliefs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Andrews did believe she had prophetic powers or ESP.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2022
Is this enough evidence to warrant rejecting an assumption that the subject does not have ESP?
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Although the winds are trending weaker, esp. for vlys & coasts, Red Flag Warnings have been extended through Thur 8PM.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025
"The downward revision reflects our more cautious view on both investment and consumption growth, esp. in 3Q," the Wall Street bank said in a note.
From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2023
A particularly tense period of time, esp. one leading up to the climax of a competition or event.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
Folks esp. in mobile homes need to use today's quiet wx to solidify plans in case of warnings tomorrow.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
And it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, esp for queer folks who don’t get this opportunity often.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
“The restrictions gave us time to understand Omicron and we know our existing vaccines work against Omicron, esp boosted,” Munoz wrote on Twitter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
“They would want me to give up Dt or family, esp JK. I would never do that,” Manafort said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2019
The entry for “computer” defined it as “a calculating-machine; esp an automatic electronic device for performing mathematical or logical operations”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
The printed text is that published in 1778-1803 by J. White at Oxford under the title Versio Philoxenia; for the marginal notes see esp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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