How to Use telepathy in a Sentence

telepathy

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  • As long as people play fair and with good spirits of course telepathy will end up occurring.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Daily Southtown, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The machines will use a form of inter-android telepathy one minute, then fail to exploit its usefulness the next.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
  • Of course, the three will have some magical powers of their own, including telekinesis, telepathy, and the ability to stop time.
    — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 20 July 2018
  • Language, after all, is our way of coping without telepathy.
    — N.j. Enfield, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • On-screen, Kidman’s empathy seems to border on telepathy.
    — Brooke Hauser, Marie Claire, 17 Sep. 2018
  • The teenagers of Xavier’s institute, who were once shielded from the public through Xavier’s telepathy are now adults and have disbanded and gone their separate ways after the defeat of Magneto.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2019
  • All of these gosh-wow moments extend and elaborate on powers depicted in previous Star Wars films: telepathy, mind control, and the like.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The mere chance to see a band with its original lineup intact and airtight through a lifetime of musical telepathy trumps any and all possible pyrotechnics.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2018
  • There was also someone in another part of the Defense Ministry looking into telepathy.
    — David Furst, National Geographic, 19 June 2016
  • Once at the table, a sumptuous bread selection appears as if summoned by| mental telepathy.
    — Victoria Pesce Elliott, miamiherald, 10 July 2017
  • Tobii’s response was that eye-tracking isn’t necessarily across-the-room telepathy.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Musk hopes the implant, created by his brain-computer interface startup Neuralink, could one day help quadriplegics control smartphones, and perhaps even endow users with a sort of telepathy.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
  • Harness your natural telepathy by dressing as a fortune teller this Halloween.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Is Eleven the only one capable of excavating these memories through telepathy?
    — Time, 4 July 2019
  • Most often, though, telepathy seems to stand merely for an unremarkable human faculty.
    — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Today, two-thirds of Americans believe that angels and demons exist; a third believe that climate change is a hoax; almost a quarter believe that vaccines cause autism; only a third strongly disbelieve in telepathy and ghosts.
    — Kurt Andersen, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • And some of it is speculation: the particular blend of body-language analysis, clothing-choice analysis, telepathy and tea-leaves reading that go into so many discussions about Melania Trump.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The only way Chevy could improve the MyLink interaction experience would be by incorporating telepathy.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Super sight, super muscles, super hearing, and telepathy could have profound implications on the broader society, implications that could slow down or speed up the military’s adoption.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
  • However, Golding’s strongly sensory work — told primarily from the perspective of Lok, the Everyman — leans more heavily on imagination (including a kind of pictorial telepathy) than on research.
    — Nicole Lamy, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • The lecture mixed neurological theory and armchair anthropology, and ranged over subjects including premonitions, telepathy, hypnotism, hallucinations, and epileptic and migrainous aura.
    — Katherine Foxhall, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018

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