palmistry

Example Sentences

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His now-defunct TikTok account, which has more than 300,000 followers, claims to make predictions based on astrology and palmistry.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

To say, as Fukuyama does, that “the desire for status—megalothymia—is rooted in human biology” is the academic equivalent of palmistry.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

The name came from a random page in a Victorian book of palmistry.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016

It sounds like seaside palmistry, but the firm claims candidates get more interviews as a result.

From Economist • Oct. 1, 2015

At the closing banquet someone mentioned to Mikhail Tal that Bobby, who’d been studying palmistry, was reading the palms of other players, almost as a parlor game.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady