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Recent Examples of thankfully
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.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
This hype died down, thankfully.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Times are indeed dark, and thankfully our poets are seeing.
—Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
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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.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
This hype died down, thankfully.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Times are indeed dark, and thankfully our poets are seeing.
—Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for thankfully
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thankfully
Adverb
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Organ-style metal vent pulls, fortunately, are one constant.—
Lawrence Ulrich,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
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And fortunately, many people recognize that this is an important challenge.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 June 2026
Adverb
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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.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
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Because there’s a whole vibe… luckily, it’s gone away.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
13 June 2026
Adverb
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Angela’s bookish young son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro) and her gloriously uninhibited mother Mona (Katherine Helmond) rounded out the household.—
JP Mangalindan,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 June 2026
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In an era where custom builds increasingly rely on CAD renderings, algorithms, and social-media-friendly shock value, there's something refreshing about a builder spending countless hours shaping metal by hand to create something this gloriously unnecessary.—
Utkarsh Sood
June 05,
New Atlas,
5 June 2026
Adverb
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The high heat accentuates the natural sweetness of the onions and still gives them that pleasantly toasty and golden color and texture, just with a little less fuss than caramelizing onions on a stovetop, which requires regular stirring.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 June 2026
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Who Loves the Sun follows the Oklahoma noise-rockers’ 2024 LP Cool World and last year’s pleasantly unexpected Hayden Pedigo collab album In the Earth Again.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
9 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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Gibson's acting is great, but special mention needs to be made for Heath Ledger as Martin's son, Gabriel, and Jason Isaacs as the villainous Colonel William Tavington, who is a delightfully hatable Redcoat.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2026
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This delightfully retro side dish is an easy, no-cook recipe that can be prepped in advance and served at room temperature.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
13 June 2026
Adverb
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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 18 Jun. 2026.
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