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Recent Examples of thankfully
Best Luggage and Travel Bag Deals The last half of the vacation-prepping battle is actually packing all your new pieces, which thankfully Nordstrom makes almost effortless.
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Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
Tucci, who thankfully gets a lot more screen time here, understands the assignment and plays the patron saint in a waistcoat with aplomb.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
With Steve Phelps thankfully removed earlier this year, this was the logical next step.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
No vicious prank call, either (thankfully).
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
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Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
Tucci, who thankfully gets a lot more screen time here, understands the assignment and plays the patron saint in a waistcoat with aplomb.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
With Steve Phelps thankfully removed earlier this year, this was the logical next step.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
No vicious prank call, either (thankfully).
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thankfully
Adverb
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Paying for an education can be daunting, but fortunately, ScholarShare 529 has helped families rise to the challenge of affording higher education for more than 25 years.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
1 May 2026
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Cherries belong to the Prunus genus—fortunately, anything in this genus is relatively easy to grow from seed, according to Jacob Mentlik, a fruit tree expert at Fedco Seeds.—
Rachel Silva,
Martha Stewart,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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Butler said that the kangaroo was luckily unharmed in the incident and safely returned to its home.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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The press was enthusiastic, and luckily the books managed to find an audience almost immediately.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The Midwest has no shortage of wide-open highways, but what makes a plains-state drive memorable are the gloriously strange things waiting just off the interstate.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Apr. 2026
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But the writer-director behind The Green Knight and A Ghost Story has taken the most accessible subject imaginable — stratospheric pop stardom — and made something wonderfully, gloriously weird out of it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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One of the most pleasantly surprising things about visiting the Florida Keys is seeing how many attractions allow for four-legged visitors accompanying their humans.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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Good gluten-free chocolate chip cookies are pleasantly sweet and have plenty of melty chocolate chips in the mix.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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My parents, whose reaction to my transition has been blessedly undramatic and kind, have expressed some guilt around this.—
Benny Peterson,
Vogue,
4 May 2026
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At Vato, in Park Slope—which, blessedly, opens at seven in the morning—the tortillas are thin and rich, with chewy interiors and a flaky, blistered outside from the heat of the flattop.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
Adverb
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Unlike her earlier Fame Monster remixes, which served utilitarian club fodder to capitalize on her debut, Dawn delightfully surrendered its source material to a wise cast of pop, rap, and dance tinkerers like Ashnikko and Dorian Electra.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
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The technique is dead simple (all by hand) and takes a delightfully heavy hand with spices.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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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
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But yeah, gratifyingly quite a bit.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Gast Studio’s Stem Vase, on show at group exhibition Deoron, features glossy oversized thorn shapes that give the object both a hostile presence and a pleasingly jagged profile, like a rose stem on steroids.—
Francesca Perry,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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Brashly violent, clattery and pleasingly untied to any direct predecessor, the result is more generic than its braggy auteur claims might promise, but there’s a lot here for gorehounds to feast on.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Thankfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thankfully. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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