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What does preternatural mean?

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Adjective
  1. Beyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange
  2. (dated) Having an existence outside of the natural world.
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Tsai's preternatural simplicity wondrously collapses the spaces between viewer and viewed, depicter and depicted.
But more than anything else, I heard expressions of awe at the president's preternatural certainty and wonderment about its source.
Bacon, Galileo and Descartes rejected the preternatural je ne sais quoi in favour of a scientific examination of nature.
It starts out slow and ethereal, but when the chorus comes, it effloresces into a symphony of preternatural sound that blows you away.
Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
He's developed a preternatural ability to get the squeaker out of any toy, always accompanied by clouds of Hollofil.

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