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Recent Examples of thankfully
Our butler, thankfully, came to the rescue.
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Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
This, thankfully, doesn’t have to be a rhetorical question, and the answer starts at just $9.
—Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 30 May 2026
Fans have been loving Boston Blue, and thankfully it was renewed for a second season.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
The evening was pleasantly warm, and the winds had thankfully abated.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
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Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
This, thankfully, doesn’t have to be a rhetorical question, and the answer starts at just $9.
—Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 30 May 2026
Fans have been loving Boston Blue, and thankfully it was renewed for a second season.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
The evening was pleasantly warm, and the winds had thankfully abated.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thankfully
Adverb
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Al-Nassr Ronaldo’s Portugal squad enters the World Cup with 10-to-1 odds to raise the trophy, according to FanDuel, and fortunately for the Iberian nation, its star striker is still sharp on the field even in his 40s.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
4 June 2026
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And fortunately, Erik Bork, the director of that film, really wanted to check his own biases and echo chambers and invited us and others to help advise him on the script and to ensure that the script itself is not painting a caricature of the characters.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
Adverb
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And luckily for me, Zendaya served up a season's worth of long-skirt inspo while on a date with Tom Holland in Los Angeles.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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The only positive thing about these fast-growing plants is that there are, luckily, a number of ways to get rid of them.—
Felicia Feaster,
Martha Stewart,
30 May 2026
Adverb
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Heard whole, the Barber-Menotti product is as gloriously over the top as anything that Bette Davis ever made with William Wyler—and Heartbeat’s reduction of it to its burning cinders is as just as effective as Glyndebourne’s grandly eloquent take.—
Russell Platt,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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Mingling with all the new developments each summer, there are plenty of mainstay institutions and events that are gloriously familiar to frequent visitors.—
Nick Scott,
Robb Report,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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Watercress curled like a dragon’s tail through a broth infused with the pleasantly medical earthiness of chuan bei, an herb in the lily family known to help stem a cough.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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You might be pleasantly surprised by how strong your son is.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Adverb
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In the show’s second season, Sylvia’s burgeoning event-planning business put her on a collision course with her platonic bestie’s bad-idea wedding, leaving her plenty of space to stumble and spin out within the show’s blessedly joke-heavy sensibility.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Each fixture and floor is made with natural, upcycled materials, and blessedly, these homes are naturally cool even in the summer.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
29 May 2026
Adverb
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The service Warm, personal, yet delightfully unfussed.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The attached cocktail lounge keeps the brandy Old-Fashioneds flowing long after breakfast ends and even features an 18-foot shuffleboard table that feels delightfully stuck in another era.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
31 May 2026
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And, most gratifyingly for a genre that can sometimes feel stuck in retrograde masculinity, a lot of those three-dimensional characters are women.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 May 2026
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Whale lusts after a hunky gardener (Brendan Fraser) and persuades him to pose for a few sketches; Julian, though bisexual, expresses no such interest in Lori, and any art-making turns out to be a gratifyingly mutual endeavor.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But pleasingly, once my phone had some charge, the app downloaded quickly and instantly detected the camera when it was plugged in.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 May 2026
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Although the film pleasingly goes full Latin-American Peckinpah — yet with a far more convincing and righteous anti-colonial streak — threaded throughout are dreamlike interludes and flashbacks that provide generational historical context to the events and intensify the atmosphere.—
David Katz,
IndieWire,
20 May 2026
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“Thankfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thankfully. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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