telekinetically
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9.9
- adverb
- /ˌtɛlɪkɪˈnɛtɪkli/
Examples
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"He can telekinetically control the entire desert."
Fiction book (2002) -
You could circumvent the block telekinetically.
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The Soviets wanted to see if Nina could telekinetically affect the bioelectrical impulses in living tissue.
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This is the feeling that not only do I have the ability to influence sporting events by staring in a particularly intense way at the TV, but I have the power to telekinetically cause women to reach orgasm from various distances—women in other restaurants, in other cities.
Fiction book (1996) -
Property must be returned to its rightful owners; traffic on the freeway must be restored; and notwithstanding freewheeling conductors with improvised batons and telekinetically transmitted music, the network remains under the control of Empire.
Academic text (2016) -
The magician telekinetically moved the card from one side of the table to the other.
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With a focused mind, she was able to telekinetically lift the heavy box without touching it.
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During the experiment, the scientist telekinetically manipulated the spheres to demonstrate the effects of mind over matter.
Surface Forms
Morphology
telekinetically = telekinetic (opaque) = tele + kinetic + ly
The word is formally built from 'telekinetic' plus '-ly', but the base term is a specialized scientific/paranormal expression that an average B1 learner is unlikely to infer compositionally.
Etymology
The word telekinetically comes from the Greek parts tele- 'far', as in telephone, and kinesis 'movement', as in kinetic. So to act telekinetically is to move objects 'from far away' with your mind, without touching them.