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- verb To
discern (or appear to discern) someone'sthoughts
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Examples
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I don't want to cast aspersions on anyone's motives, or attempt to mind-read.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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If my family or any of the beardy artisans they hung out with had found my diaries, overheard the nightly phone conversations with confidantes, or worse still, mind-read my fantasies – a cartoonish swirl of novice sex scenes, stalking plans and romantic heroine delusions – I have no doubt they would have been shocked out of their idealism.
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I don't want to cast aspersions on anyone's motives, or attempt to mind-read.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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If you try to mind-read the other person and constantly try to fulfill their expectations, you will become a wreck.
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As a theoretical matter, economists can't mind-read so any economist observing this scene would probably fall back on revealed-preference and say "actually this bloke doesn't want food".
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He cant mind-read any more than you can, and thinking in extremes just creates ridiculously high expectations that no one can match.
What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008
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He cant mind-read any more than you can, and thinking in extremes just creates ridiculously high expectations that no one can match.
What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008
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Dont expect him to mind-read and just know what you want.
What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008
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So, how do you mind-read that when the intention was to use the word to indicate "disaster" the news media choose the word "holocaust" which no Israel politician would use to describe the fate of anyone else but Jews in THE Holocaust.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Dont expect him to mind-read and just know what you want.
What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008
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