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Recent Examples of thankfully
The officer was taken by helicopter to a local hospital and treated for his injuries, which are thankfully non-life-threatening.
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Luke Barr, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
Combative Mars finds ease in a trine to lucky Jupiter, focusing your 2nd House of Salaries and your 6th House of Effort, which — thankfully — should make budgeting less stressful.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
That thinking has thankfully started to shift.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
But thankfully the Stars media guide is here to help.
—R.j. Coyle, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
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Luke Barr, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
Combative Mars finds ease in a trine to lucky Jupiter, focusing your 2nd House of Salaries and your 6th House of Effort, which — thankfully — should make budgeting less stressful.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
That thinking has thankfully started to shift.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
But thankfully the Stars media guide is here to help.
—R.j. Coyle, Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thankfully
Adverb
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First, the two singers originally cast to play Carmen and Don José on Friday and Sunday were replaced in the past week (fortunately with two very good artists).—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Their words of caution were ignored (fortunately, in retrospect), and enterprising experimentalists embarked on a journey that would take nearly half a century, and the construction of three powerful colliders, to bear fruit.—
Mariangela Lisanti,
Twin Cities,
27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Very quickly, luckily, I was elected to the board of the Academy.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2026
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And luckily that control came naturally.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The pancakes were fluffy on the inside and lacy at the edges, topped with a generous dollop of Meyer lemon curd and a handful of gloriously plump blueberries.—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Interiors are gloriously free of safe neutrals.—
Vicki Power,
TheWeek,
23 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The screen’s swivel mechanism is pleasantly firm and doesn’t move during intense running sessions.—
Craig Rawlins-Wilson,
PC Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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There’s a weird disconnect between the show’s pleasantly languid visual feel and its characters’ emotions.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
23 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Writer-director Luchina Fisher’s documentary The Dads, a portrait of assorted American fathers trying to support their trans and non-binary children in these dark times, is both painfully timely and blessedly hopeful, a warning and a balm in one handy package.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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For the blessedly unaware, gooning is when maladjusted young men consume immense, overstimulating amounts of pornography and masturbate for hours on end to reach some kind of transcendent release.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Evenly spread out in a thin layer on a half sheet pan, each piece of rigatoni is cloaked in sauce and melting cheese, yet comes out of the oven perfectly al dente, with delightfully crisp edges.—
Rebecca Firkser,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
22 Mar. 2026
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Massachusetts resident Stephen Chukumba, who featured in the original short and has stepped up to producing for this feature, faces less drastic life choices, especially since his transgender son Hobbes, a delightfully phlegmatic, unflappable kid, is now old enough to go off to university.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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But yeah, gratifyingly quite a bit.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The film’s empathetic interest in individual, often eccentric human lives gives it a warmth that overrides the underlying melancholy of the material, making for a pleasingly unsentimental crowdpleaser.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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The algorithm, pleasingly, is languishing in last place.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Thankfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thankfully. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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