as in fortunately
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Recent Examples of thankfully
Mina the Hollower, thankfully, gets the balance right.
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Jason Bennett,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2026
His fears were, thankfully, quickly put to rest when the show's first season dropped.
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Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
This is a touristy neighborhood, with Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery around one corner, The Mall round the other, and Piccadilly Circus just up the road—although thankfully the throng can be easily avoided.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
This hype died down, thankfully.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for thankfully
Jason Bennett,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2026
His fears were, thankfully, quickly put to rest when the show's first season dropped.
—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
This is a touristy neighborhood, with Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery around one corner, The Mall round the other, and Piccadilly Circus just up the road—although thankfully the throng can be easily avoided.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
This hype died down, thankfully.
—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for thankfully
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thankfully
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This was a main reason for the 32-game work stoppage in 1990, when fortunately no games were missed but spring training started late.
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That’s been an ongoing problem that is fortunately starting to go away.
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And luckily, there are plenty of deals to shop during this sale.
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There’s a lot of repairing and resolution that needs to happen in this final episode, but luckily things start strong with Liz and Jo-Ellen pulling each other aside to talk things through on the beach.
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Even so, her spiral downward to near death before ending up in treatment is ridiculously, gloriously brisk.
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The minimalist bed brand, long associated with restrained neutrals and quietly competent adulthood, has partnered with the London design firm known for its gloriously unapologetic stripes and velvets.
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Vec was also pleasantly surprised that the shuttle left on time.
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Alpert was also pleasantly surprised at how well the Tiami regulates temperature.
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Margaret’s attic, though blessedly private, was also hot in the summer, the best efforts of its in-window air conditioner insufficient for the heat that had been seeping upward all afternoon.
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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.
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Her style was wholly her own, with a delightfully strange mix of off-kilter compositions, deadpan facial expressions, and historical references.
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All that makes his new album, TON UP, a delightfully unexpected left turn.
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Tangy, lemony, and gratifyingly simple, this recipe should be your next summer baking project.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“Thankfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thankfully. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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