These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'clairvoyant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019 Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 7 June 2018 Sure, there are some fights – most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child. Newbrough fell into the eclectic circles of the city, visiting many seers and clairvoyants. 2019 This was a fruitful time for New Yorkers with spiritual interests, and Dr. 2019 McCorristine goes so far as to describe clairvoyants as a medium of communication, a ridiculous assertion.ĭavid James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec.
2020 During this same period, clairvoyants were quite the rage in England.ĭavid James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020 And as one of the founders of the New York Record Pool - an organization that helped distribute promotional vinyl to D.J.s - in 1975, Mancuso was at the forefront of asserting the D.J.’s role as commercial and critical clairvoyant.Īaron Gonsher, New York Times, 13 Feb. Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2020 When Dolly Parton was a young girl, a clairvoyant in the Smoky Mountains who went by the name Bones once told her she was meant for greatness. New York Times, Spare and rhapsodic, Eartheater is set on the margins of an unnamed Latin American city and follows a teenage clairvoyant who communes with the dead by eating dirt. William Pesek, Forbes, Macintyre is a spirit worker - a clairvoyant medium, to be exact - and does her tarot readings out of a modern, cozy home office.īrian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The flaws of each character will surprise and perhaps even enchant you - and only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book’s ending. 2021 The downgrade made then-Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, seem clairvoyant. Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Among their own motivations, hardly hidden, was a desire to appear clairvoyant. 2021 To hear the book was finished in May 2020 feels almost clairvoyant.Ĭraig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep.
2021 The eight-speed automatic transmission goes clairvoyant, picking the perfect gear for any corner and shifting with near-dual-clutch quickness.Įzra Dyer, Car and Driver, 20 Oct. 2021 Two years later, Wen looked borderline clairvoyant when S&P downgraded the U.S. Miranda Seymour, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021 Barker has sometimes described writing as an almost clairvoyant experience, a characterization that undervalues both her formidably precise and detailed research and the strength of her prose. Clairvoyant definition, having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision: Not being clairvoyant. Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Hayek Pinault believes Pina had clairvoyant powers and genuinely cared for Patrizia.