as in fortunately
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Recent Examples of blessedly
And the supernatural does show up, although Wise’s slow-burn approach means that the film is blessedly free from conventional jump scares.
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blessedly
Adverb
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While the couch may have paid the price, fortunately Hank was fine after.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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Then the brothers’ neighbor swooped in with a sleeping bag that was fortunately still in his car after a recent camping trip.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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He was thankfully surrounded by teammates who have his back both on and off the field.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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Having watched my first husband struggle through a brutal, but thankfully relatively quick, death from esophageal cancer 20 years ago, my diagnosis of Stage 2 breast cancer at the end of 2023 reinvigorated my desire to reprioritize living life to the fullest.—
Jeri Clausing,
AFAR Media,
31 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Thankfully, Loki's happily ever after came shortly after the animal shelter posted this video.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Travelers aren’t supposed to visit the park without a guide, but luckily, several companies offer trips.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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But luckily, my hero is here to save us.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The study helpfully noted that the impact was especially great with Black audiences — an important distinction as Black patients are often overrepresented on transplant waiting lists and underrepresented with donors.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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Just in the past two days, the spicy, junky stuff has come in a bit ( quantum , drones , upstart nuclear power ), helpfully.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Blessedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blessedly. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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