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• s  surpassing the ordinary or normal
  Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will
• s  existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

• In Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), the young-adult nerd with preternatural powers, gets covered in intergalactic black stickum.
• Today, thanks to her preternatural drive and optimism, up to 200 patientsmostly migrant workers and refugees from across the borderpass through her clinic every day.
• How a child prodigy like Son comes by his preternatural ability is not something that has made much sense to scientists.

• uncanny
• nonnatural
• otherworldly
• transcendental

News & Articles

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• A Twist in the Path | Unexpected maturity shines on debut disc
  Sometimes, you hear about the guy with an "old soul." Whether it's from acting older, or displaying a preternatural wisdom and maturity, or simply having a connection to something that extends beyond generations, we know the old souls when we see them. When sitting down with Kristen Hemphill, Tulsa... By G.K. Hizer.
  July 10, 2013 - Urban Tulsa
• 3D-Printed Spiderbot Is Stuff of Dreams and Nightmares
  Some people are afraid of spiders. Others are afraid of robots . Heaven help the person afraid of both who stumbles upon this creepy-crawly 3D-printed robotic spider from Robugtix. The T8 is made nightmare-inducing not only by its 3D-printed and somewhat realistic-looking skin but by the preternatural movements that mimic living eight-leggers. According to Robugtix , that’s thanks largely to the ...
  July 5, 2013 - Mashable

Quotes

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• Lionel Chetwynd in Sydney Morning Herald
  What was getting to me was Michael Moore's almost preternatural obsession with getting rid of Bush,Chetwynd said. "We set out to analyse the cause of this deep-seated hatred, the contention that Bush stole Florida, used the Patriot Act to...
• James Tupper in People Magazine
  He is unbelievable,Tupper says of Homer. "We had a cast baseball game on the weekend and he came off and slugged it over the short stop. He has got a preternatural swing."
• Charles Krauthammer in Chicago Reader
  Krauthammer wrote: "Ronald Reagan, I was once told, said he liked 'The Natural' except that he didn't understand why the Dark Lady shoots Roy Hobbs. Reagan, the preternatural optimist, may have had difficulty fathoming tragedy, but no one knows why...