Preternaturally in a sentence as an adverb

Steve Jobs may have been a dick, but he was really fuckin preternaturally good at being a dick.

She has to be seen as preternaturally cool. There are women of average or below-average looks who can pull this off.

In my high school typing class, accuracy was preternaturally stressed.

I still want to read a comic about a preternaturally buxom woman throwing a bus, but I want to read other things, too.

And then there's the bukkake thing, which is kinda disturbing even for a preternaturally open-minded guy like me." So...

All this story shows me is a man preternaturally gifted in terms of understanding the people around him, and bullshitting.

And, I learned a new word: preternaturally - in a supernatural manner

You’re part of a preternaturally enlightened dev team, and have set aside an entire day for nothing but code review. However, after the first 2 hours, you realise that you have forgotten your glasses and have just been staring at colourful blurs all morning.

Not actually impossible, but the dev needs to be almost preternaturally productive. It is much more common to find programmer + artist + others teams, as it became after the transition to 16-bit.

I didn't mention anything about paying, I asked about submitting to HN. Paying for content is great but I think it's rude to aim for the front page with a source that excludes a vast majority, even if they were preternaturally prone to signing up.

It's a nice thing to do, and some people are just preternaturally nice to vendors, and that's usually fine, but there's nothing deontologically "responsible" about that.

Shapes are really just for illustration, but they also emphasize the irony: “you’re part of a preternaturally enlightened dev team” yet you review your coworkers' code without even reading. Perhaps there's something to be read between the lines.

What this means is that percentile-based self-assessment has no signal, not that unskilled people are preternaturally inclined to think of themselves as excellent.

In the same way the article OP mentioned they were ahead of everyone else wrt features/implementation etc, I wonder if the scammers are ahead of the game in terms of preternaturally staying under the App/Play Store radars? Like, specifically, exactly what might they be doing, I wonder?

That avoids harshing the project vibe with overtly commercial overtones that turn off the financially immature and preternaturally entitled. But in reality, they're often really payments for products, services, access, and so on.

Some preternaturally optimistic analysts concluded that humans would always find their way out of tough spots. Among them was Julian L. Simon, an economist who established himself as the anti-Ehrlich, arguing that 'humanity’s condition will improve in just about every material way.

People who have preternaturally good memories invariably turn out to have intuitively rediscovered classic mnemonic techniques at a young age and have used them semi-consciously without realizing it most of their lives.

True, but I'd then make the usual counterpoint that average is not the median or mode and can be misleading in its own way - the average human has half a vagina and <1 ball and <1 breast, the average human has <4 limbs and <2 eyes, etc The average person can be quite feckless, even if you live in a population split between preternaturally intelligent clones of John von Neumann and people tragically in a coma...

Preternaturally definitions

adverb

in a supernatural manner; "she was preternaturally beautiful"

See also: supernaturally