as in sadly
by bad fortune or luck
Unfortunately, you've just missed her.
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Recent Examples of unfortunately
And unfortunately, this is not the first time in his coaching career where blood clots have been an issue for him.
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Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Virginia Tech is unfortunately all too familiar with violence on campus as 32 professors and students were killed in a mass shooting, on April 16, 2007.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
The team was unfortunately unable to locate Sharp's birth mom, but did find his older brother, Stephen Sandison, living in Inverness, Scotland.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
The right thing to do would be to end this paragraph with the 6,000 exoplanet discovery counterpart to 51 Pegasi b, but that's unfortunately not possible.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Virginia Tech is unfortunately all too familiar with violence on campus as 32 professors and students were killed in a mass shooting, on April 16, 2007.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
The team was unfortunately unable to locate Sharp's birth mom, but did find his older brother, Stephen Sandison, living in Inverness, Scotland.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
The right thing to do would be to end this paragraph with the 6,000 exoplanet discovery counterpart to 51 Pegasi b, but that's unfortunately not possible.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfortunately
Adverb
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Liver surgery followed and more chemotherapy but sadly the cancer has continued to spread.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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The film and book's title, as Abbott explained on Zoom ahead of the film's release, expresses their unique world—one that sadly wasn’t built to last.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Their answer to having to tolerate difference is whatever means are necessary to stop liberalization, and lamentably, our Bill of Rights and governmental checks on the executive mean that taking a jack hammer to our nation’s foundation is a necessary means to a repugnant end.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Unfortunately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfortunately. Accessed 11 Oct. 2025.
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