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Recent Examples of mercifully
With him, there’s mercifully no reality to yesterday.
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
For now, the pro football season mercifully ends, and not nearly soon enough.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Fey was only engaged to Richmond at the time, not married, and at least in the clip of the sketch played during Fey's interview, Richmond was mercifully only standing, not hanging suspended from a rope.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025
This year’s field is mercifully free of a Skin or a Two Distant Strangers, and the two nominees most plugged in to the current political moment have none of the cloying obviousness that usually marks an Oscar short.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
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Gary Graff, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
For now, the pro football season mercifully ends, and not nearly soon enough.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Fey was only engaged to Richmond at the time, not married, and at least in the clip of the sketch played during Fey's interview, Richmond was mercifully only standing, not hanging suspended from a rope.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025
This year’s field is mercifully free of a Skin or a Two Distant Strangers, and the two nominees most plugged in to the current political moment have none of the cloying obviousness that usually marks an Oscar short.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mercifully
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“Mercifully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercifully. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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