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Recent Examples of regrettably
Meager compensation by today’s standards, and, regrettably, considering the extended time, paltry back then.
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Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
This film is here to praise him and, regrettably, bury him, just not in a metaphorical sense.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Now a grand finale is upon us in this third film installment, bringing back many franchise regulars such as Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern (regrettably, Maggie Smith, who ruled the roost as the Dowager Countess, passed away in 2024).
—Dan Heching, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Trump has regrettably already taken off the table NATO membership for Ukraine, which would represent the most credible security guarantee, since Moscow has never attacked a NATO member.
—Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2025
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Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
This film is here to praise him and, regrettably, bury him, just not in a metaphorical sense.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Now a grand finale is upon us in this third film installment, bringing back many franchise regulars such as Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern (regrettably, Maggie Smith, who ruled the roost as the Dowager Countess, passed away in 2024).
—Dan Heching, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Trump has regrettably already taken off the table NATO membership for Ukraine, which would represent the most credible security guarantee, since Moscow has never attacked a NATO member.
—Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regrettably
Adverb
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And, unfortunately, their decline in both areas has run simultaneously with other Bundesliga clubs becoming far better in each department.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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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
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In the Western Conference, sadly, a Joker alone won’t be enough to win the pot.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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That is sadly the position Princess Beatrice finds herself in after the recent scandals her mother, Sarah Ferguson, and her father, Prince Andrew, have been embroiled in.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
29 Sep. 2025
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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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Many of these real-life experiences end tragically, but when the musician survives and finds sobriety, the war stories don’t go away.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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The result is that these individuals were more likely to have their cancers diagnosed at a later stage, when survival rates are lower, and therefore tragically ended up having more deaths from their cancers.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Now Daphne, unhappily affianced, has run off with one Hop Wingdale, a clarinet player for a band called the Klezmopolitans, and her mother and her would-be future husband have engaged Unamalgamated Ops to bring her home.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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In season 3 of The Gilded Age, Gladys unhappily marries the Duke of Buckingham.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Regrettably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regrettably. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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