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Recent Examples of thankfully
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.
—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
Our butler, thankfully, came to the rescue.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for thankfully
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
Our butler, thankfully, came to the rescue.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for thankfully
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thankfully
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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
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The Flanner House has regularly passed out lead testing kits in partnership with local churches, and, luckily, Cosby said, he's never heard of local residents suffering from lead poisoning.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
4 June 2026
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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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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
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The return of Rachel Reilly was gloriously entertaining, there was no static majority alliance simply mowing down the opposition, and there were griping eliminations along the way.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 June 2026
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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
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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
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Even the logistics feel delightfully analog.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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Around 4,500 hospitality meals are served each day, along with a delightfully English 12,000 scones (half fruit, half plain) and another 12,000 tea cakes per Test.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
5 June 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
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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 12 Jun. 2026.
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