mind reader
noun
a person professing the ability of mind reading, especially as a professional entertainer.
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mind-readernouna person seemingly able to discern the thoughts of another
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Origin of mind reader
First recorded in 1885–90
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One was with a mind reader — though he’d reject the term — who insisted that the trick wasn’t magic at all, but attention.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
“It isn’t like trying to draw some type of conclusion and be a mind reader on who’s about to commit an offense,” Dart said.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Last year Geller's friend Scottish mentalist and mind reader Drew McAdam, who comes from East Lothian, the county that includes Lamb, made the first recording of a piece of music called Our Land.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2022
Nightmare Alley stars Bradley Cooper as Stanton Carlisle, a nightclub mind reader who becomes tangled up with Cate Blanchett as Dr. Lilith Ritter, a psychiatrist out to debunk him as a fraud.
From The Verge ● Sep. 16, 2021
“You can’t miss school,” she says, like she’s a mind reader.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
CNN’s Jake Tapper, in debriefing reporter Evan Perez, said he couldn’t ask him to be a mind-reader in assessing Trump’s mood.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
“Some are legitimate and some are corrupt, and you don’t need to be a mind-reader to figure out which is which,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
After all, it didn’t take a mind-reader to figure out that this was what Powell would do as Fed chair—just a newspaper.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2018
As the introduction to “This Is Our Song” puts it, she is “a storyteller, a mind-reader, a believer, and a friend.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2016
“Oh,” she said, and then went into grandparent mind-reader mode.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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