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  • adjective Alternative form of extrasensory.

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Examples

  • How Williams is able to determine that everyone he sees in "Muslim garb" is, first of all a Muslim, and second, that they foremost identify themselves as a Muslim (as opposed to an American, a woman, a professor, or a basketball player) must mean that he possesses extra-sensory talents that are remarkable indeed.

    Clarence Lusane: Sold Brothers: The Bizzaro World of Williams and Thomas Clarence Lusane 2010

  • Elizabeth Taylor had the face that launched a thousand quips: Cultural critic Camille Paglia likened her appearance before the lens to an "extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon."

    The View From the Mountaintop Steve Dollar 2011

  • When a respected psychology journal announced last week that it had decided to accept a research report showing the existence of extra-sensory perception, there was quite a kerfuffle.

    Julia Moulden: Do We Have ESP? Julia Moulden 2011

  • How Williams is able to determine that everyone he sees in "Muslim garb" is, first of all a Muslim, and second, that they foremost identify themselves as a Muslim (as opposed to an American, a woman, a professor, or a basketball player) must mean that he possesses extra-sensory talents that are remarkable indeed.

    Clarence Lusane: Sold Brothers: The Bizzaro World of Williams and Thomas Clarence Lusane 2010

  • The New York Times is using these blogs as an extra-sensory organ; they can dial into what is happening in the tech sector (and particularly the West Coast with this trio) without allocating a lot of internal resources to it.

    Weblogs Maxine 2009

  • When a respected psychology journal announced last week that it had decided to accept a research report offering empirical support for the existence of extra-sensory perception, there was quite a kerfuffle.

    Julia Moulden: Do We Have ESP? Julia Moulden 2011

  • When a respected psychology journal announced last week that it had decided to accept a research report offering empirical support for the existence of extra-sensory perception, there was quite a kerfuffle.

    Julia Moulden: Do We Have ESP? Julia Moulden 2011

  • The norm-humans and supers without extra-sensory perception or some other way of knowing what was happening outside shifted nervously from one foot to the other.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Call’s Review Forum 2009

  • When a respected psychology journal announced last week that it had decided to accept a research report showing the existence of extra-sensory perception, there was quite a kerfuffle.

    Julia Moulden: Do We Have ESP? Julia Moulden 2011

  • And here too, Justine reveals herself to have, along with a huge dose of melancholia, extra-sensory powers.

    Karin Badt: A Conversation with "Nazi" Lars Von Trier About Melancholia Karin Badt 2011

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