palmist

Example Sentences

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The distractions are different now because we’ve evolved into electronic palmists anxious to instant-share and nervous about ever disconnecting.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

One of the premier palmists in Berlin during that period, Ms. Raschig read the palms of people like Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre and Leni Riefensthal.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2014

Any more psychics, entrail readers and palmists out there, feel free to chime in with your predictions.

From Forbes • Sep. 27, 2012

Every year he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on fortune tellers, medical quacks, "lovelorn experts" of press and radio, palmists, mail-order muscle builders, numerologists, diet faddists, nerve pills, perfumed unguents.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri