mentalist

Example Sentences

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He then bills himself as a mentalist and begins performing séances for wealthy clients.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Now married and living in Nashville, Tennessee, he is proud dad Andrew has seen "how far I've come as a person, because I was an absolute mentalist when I was younger."

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

As a kid, he was on the Catskills circuit with his brother in a mentalist act, “The Boy with the Radio Mind.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

He is not a conceptualist, like Derek DelGaudio, or a storyteller, in the manner of Helder Guimarães, or a mentalist, like Derren Brown, or an endurance artist, in the style of his producer, David Blaine.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Any court mentalist who waded through that pair of unwashed minds would find no evidence of any open deal with Steve Hammond.

From Stop Look and Dig by Smith, George Oliver