First recorded in 1885–90
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Don't expect them to be a mind reader.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2024
“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
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
I'm not a mind reader, but let's face it: This is honking nonsense.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2021
Silvan Tomkins, maybe the greatest mind reader of them all, was compulsive about practicing.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
I know that no one is a mind-reader, but I didn’t think I was coercing my partner, and I feel very uneasy trying to retroactively “read” their body language for clues.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2021
“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
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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