Examples of supernormal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As one example, many animals have been observed to be susceptible to supernormal stimuli. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2018 Workers at a handful of firms, including Amazon and Walmart, have made superhuman efforts to fulfil online orders, and their investors have made supernormal profits as Wall Street has bid up their shares on euphoria that Western retailing is at the cutting edge. The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020 Adversarial examples can be seen as a form of supernormal stimuli for neural networks. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2018 The vision that’s ascribed to him is instead the microscopic view—a dissector’s terrifying, supernormal closeness to the facts. Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 June 2021 The Tax Policy Center assumes that 60% of corporate income taxes fall on what are called supernormal returns, which are the extra profits some companies can earn because of strategic advantages such as monopolistic power. Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017

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“Supernormal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supernormal. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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