supernatural means

collocation in English

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supernatural
adjective
uk
/ˌsuː.pəˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us
/ˌsuː.pɚˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
caused by forces that cannot be explained ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk
/miːn/us
/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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(Definition ofsupernaturalandmeanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the book he is described as being connected to a death support system and communicates only by supernatural means.
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The police captain confesses that he has been using supernatural means to return good cops to the streets and protect previously violence-ridden neighborhoods.
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By supernatural means she encounters a girl from the 1990s who is also unhappy, and the two friends swap places.
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It was believed that certain persons, known as "bloodstoppers", could halt bleeding in humans and animals by supernatural means.
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In intelligent design literature, an intelligent agent is one that chooses between different possibilities and has, by supernatural means and methods, caused life to arise.
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The futures field also excludes those who make future predictions through professed supernatural means.
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Shamans, fighting and supernatural means are all mechanisms of superimposing rules within other societies.
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He emphasized that the salvation of souls was a supernatural goal and could therefore be achieved most effectively through supernatural means.
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His scholarly and alchemical pursuits bring him under suspicion when his brothers begin to die from seemingly supernatural means.
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These sisters amassed a fortune by causing to be painted, through supernatural means, the likeness of the dead upon a canvas which was stretched across a window.
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This ring was locked under triple keys in a carefully guarded treasury, the bolts of which showed no trace of disturbance and could only have been removed by supernatural means.
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Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means.
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Sillah faced the agony of a war that the rebels fought using supernatural means to enhance their warring gallantry.
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In fact, the isomorphic fit between the natural and supernatural means that all nature is coded and charged by the sacred, while the sacred is everywhere within the physical landscape.
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