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preternatural

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An activist conservative and preternatural salesman, he drew national attention for his work on health care and welfare policy.

The author asserts here that Fabian Cancellara did not cheat with a motor, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that he did, apart from his suspicious hand movements and preternatural speed, which are purely circumstantial.

Both runners have repeatedly displayed a preternatural ability to close on this course, saving a final burst of energy so that they can be a half-yard ahead of their competition just as they cross the line.

He presided over the preternatural creation of 30 million new jobs—and the sharpest rise in median incomes in a generation.

There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.

Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert.

He said he had heard about my wonderful “flying-spears,” and declined to fight me if I used such preternatural weapons.

Such were the truths which Mohammed, with preternatural earnestness, now declared,--doctrines which would revolutionize Arabia.

A preternatural dread of water rages among all the inhabitants of Rome, from the untitled down to the titled.

The vengeance of Baldassare is almost preternatural; it surpasses the wrath of Achilles and the malignity of Shylock.

By a preternatural light in the chamber he observed distinctly everything around him.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to preternatural, such as: aberrant, anomalous, atypical, deviant, deviative, and extraordinary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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