as in sadly
by bad fortune or luck
Unfortunately, you've just missed her.
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Recent Examples of unfortunately
It’s been that way for quite some time, unfortunately.
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
King’s warning unfortunately bore out.
—Mark Conway, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
And even more unfortunately, coconut water can get mighty pricey.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
Many of their soldiers, unfortunately, are gone.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 May 2026
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
King’s warning unfortunately bore out.
—Mark Conway, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
And even more unfortunately, coconut water can get mighty pricey.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
Many of their soldiers, unfortunately, are gone.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for unfortunately
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfortunately
Adverb
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David Smith, one of the former owners, reports that despite its wild popularity, the original cake recipe sadly got lost.—
Nancy Vienneau,
Southern Living,
17 May 2026
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Hüller is having a hell of a year, winning the Silver Bear for her role as a woman passing herself off as a male soldier to claim an estate in Rose, and playing the wry, sadly pragmatic head of the international task force in Project Hail Mary, one of the biggest hits of the year.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Our attorney general’s hyperbolic statements, lamentably, do little to help on that front.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2026
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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 19 May. 2026.
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