How to Use clairvoyance in a Sentence

clairvoyance

noun
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  • I don't believe in clairvoyance, but I can't explain how he knew those things about my grandmother.
  • Whether through clairvoyance or luck, Isles meets the moment.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Their clairvoyance was based not on reading court tea leaves.
    — Holman Jenkins, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • To do this, he must be struck by lightning and learn the art of clairvoyance from Don Cosme, an old callawaya who reads fortunes in town.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • There’s a whole list of things that American men from 25 to 50 now own because of Todd Snyder’s clairvoyance.
    — Sam Schube, GQ, 6 Feb. 2018
  • In this piece, Schilling brings his usual humor, clairvoyance, wit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • Pisces, on the other hand, represents the unfathomable expanse of the sea: the misty, dreamy essence of illusion and clairvoyance.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 4 Sep. 2017
  • And from her mother and grandmother the girl has learned ancient forms of medicine and magic—like them, Almeyda has waking dreams and spells of clairvoyance.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Taggart's family had had its own brush with clairvoyance in Lily Dale.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • By the end of the 1990s, Bem had changed his focus from clairvoyance to precognition, the most mind- boggling of psi phenomena.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2012
  • The same natural, intuitive clairvoyance that puts people at ease and the same powerful force of will.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • This absurdly imputes to the Framers powers of clairvoyance.
    — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Reports of sixth-sense experiences, like clairvoyance, were the norm.
    — Chantel Tattoli, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
  • But, when the concert series fails, the men (particularly the most aggressive of the group, named Bobo, played by Marco St. John) urge her to convert her clairvoyance into an act.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
  • For example, clairvoyance permits Raz to enter the minds of others and see himself from their perspective.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Imagine the possibility that these moments of clairvoyance occur simply because of a glitch in your mind's time logs.
    — Adam Bear, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The clairvoyance business has also been able to thrive because fate is not fixed in Korean cosmology.
    — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The same natural, intuitive clairvoyance that put people at ease.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • While most psychics have genuine intentions, there are many fake psychics that pretend to have clairvoyance in order to take advantage of people.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • As a teenager growing up in the Netherlands, Massaro’s parents became involved in the Silva Method, a self-help program that purports to build states of heightened awareness and teach students clairvoyance.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Several members complained that the standard of clairvoyance was far too extreme and hurts businesses.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2019
  • But their lack of clairvoyance never seems to stop them from making predictions, just as general uncertainty about the future doesn’t grind the gambling and investment economies to a halt.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • That’s expecting a high level of clairvoyance from newsroom leaders.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • That's the area of your chart associated with clairvoyance, secrets, and illusion.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Psychics and mediums are people that claim to have psychic abilities such as clairvoyance or intuition.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In Mantel’s writing, the line that divides knowledge or clarity—even clairvoyance—and madness is never stable.
    — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • So the administration's clairvoyance and the handling of the war - resolute but controlled and measured, strengthened its reputation and the trust in US leadership.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2022
  • Fortune tellers will typically use clairvoyance or telepathy to look into the future.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Along with his clairvoyance, Sztojka inherited his 150-year-old tarot cards from his great-great-grandmother, who herself was a fortuneteller in a time when the tradition was a much greater part of Roma identity.
    — Justin Spike, ajc, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Because here is the dirty secret of anomalous phenomena like telepathy and clairvoyance: They’ve been demonstrated dozens of times, often by reputable scientists.
    — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2010

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