Example Sentences

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At the risk of perpetuating a silly cliche, it’s not uncommon to hear people in Los Angeles refer to their psychics or mediums as casually as they refer to their therapists or masseuses.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Knowing that the psychiatric establishment will be wary of new treatment approaches for psychosis based on studies of mediums and psychics, the researchers are moving deliberatively.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

He wanted to study high-functioning voice hearers, and a gathering of psychics seemed like a good place to find them.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

Documentary director Lana Wilson moves on from profiles of Taylor Swift and Brooke Shields to a handful of New York City psychics, themselves looking to bond.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

People often take the abundance and prominence of reports on psychics and parapsychological matters to be a kind of evidence of their validity.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos