preternatural
beyond what is normal or natural; extraordinary or supernatural
Word origin: From Latin praeter naturam, beyond nature.
Preternatural in a sentence
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The chess prodigy had a preternatural ability to see twenty moves ahead.
She solved the cipher with a preternatural speed that astonished even the senior cryptographers.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “preternatural” well
Preternatural means beyond the normal course of nature, often used hyperbolically for an uncanny human ability rather than the strictly supernatural.
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