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8 total sentences available.
Tom thinks he discovered that stoats have a language previously unknown to humans, that is so complex that even after years of study he barely mastered the basic vocabulary. In reality, stoats fooled him into thinking that so that he didn't realise the truth, which is that they have been talking to him telepathically all that time.
Source: tatoeba (4467561)
Aliens have telepathically revealed to me the esoteric meaning of each word of this cereal box.
Source: tatoeba (9762567)
Being anatomically incapable of human speech, Tom's squirrel usually communicates telepathically.
Source: tatoeba (10047047)
Tom was an intergalactic genius who, within the space of just a few short seconds of concentration, could absorb telepathically all the languages on Earth and then speak them better than any native.
Source: tatoeba (10681848)
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
Closest matches include figuratively, imaginatively, metaphorically, mind-readingly, psychically.
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