psychic ability

collocation in English

meaningsofpsychicandability

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psychic
adjective
uk
/ˈsaɪ.kɪk/us
/ˈsaɪ.kɪk/
having a special mental ability, for example so that you are able to know what will happen in the future or know what people ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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(Definition ofpsychicandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But the use of the signed index attributes the model with thepsychicabilityto know which phoneme represents the correct response on a given trial.
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She claimed to have developedpsychicabilityin her youth.
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She has an almostpsychicabilityto foretell when someone will arrive at the mansion and always seems to know what's going on.
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In his youth, he used to work as a servant at a garden treehouse, where he learned of hispsychicabilityfor the first time.
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The nation exceeds theirpsychicabilityof integration.
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And his apparentlypsychicabilityto know about shows in detail (and criticise them) without having seen them.
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I have never claimed to have any paranormal orpsychicability.
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With a success rate of one in five, the results showed little evidence of the mediums' claimedpsychicability.
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A percentage of correct guesses (or hits) significantly above 20% was perceived as higher than chance and indicative ofpsychicability.
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Zak has a specialpsychicabilityto connect with cryptids, allowing him to control their actions to an extent.
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Kyoko has a mildpsychicability, as she is naturally sensitive to the supernatural world.
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They may ask themselves if their success is because of psychology, intuition or apsychicability.
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She also possesses thepsychicabilityto see ghosts.
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Herpsychicabilityis strong, but a glowing prism that uses psychic energy keeps her (and, presumably, others) from being able to free themselves.
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Rem has thepsychicabilityto enter the dreams of other individuals.
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There were unnamed people with somepsychicabilityin the novel, and so, that was merged in with this character.
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As the population lived near a wormhole; they developed a degree ofpsychicability.
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She also charges people to read their tea leaves, despite her possessing nopsychicability.
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Johnny also discovers that he now has thepsychicabilityto learn a person's secrets (past, present, future) through physical contact with them.
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He also demonstratespsychicability, where the flash of a camera stops working after he declares he doesn't want to be pictured but the reporter insists.
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