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Recent Examples of tragically
The love described is classical in tone, so tragically all-consuming and full of shadows that to listen on an iPhone seems almost profane.
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Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
Wells died died tragically in a 1994 helicopter crash, an event widely felt to have set the stage for the company’s subsequent string of succession woes.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
The documentary also highlights noteworthy graduates like Ronald McNair, the astronaut and physicist who tragically died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
—Joshua Alston, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
His last film, the tragically underseen Flora and Son with Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is about a guitar teacher in America forming a bond with an Irish single mom over lessons on Zoom and eventually returning to his own promising music career.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
Despite the goal of the FDA’s breakthrough program to help accelerate the development and introduction of new therapeutic and diagnostic technologies, millions of patients in the United States who suffer from serious conditions tragically continue to have limited options.
—Josh Makower, STAT, 16 Mar. 2026
This is a bonanza for what has tragically become the city’s largest slumlord.
—Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
Yes, tragically, a million Irish natives starved to death in the Potato Famine that began in 1845.
—David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
Jarosz was tragically killed in a traffic accident the following year.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
Wells died died tragically in a 1994 helicopter crash, an event widely felt to have set the stage for the company’s subsequent string of succession woes.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
The documentary also highlights noteworthy graduates like Ronald McNair, the astronaut and physicist who tragically died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
—Joshua Alston, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
His last film, the tragically underseen Flora and Son with Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is about a guitar teacher in America forming a bond with an Irish single mom over lessons on Zoom and eventually returning to his own promising music career.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
Despite the goal of the FDA’s breakthrough program to help accelerate the development and introduction of new therapeutic and diagnostic technologies, millions of patients in the United States who suffer from serious conditions tragically continue to have limited options.
—Josh Makower, STAT, 16 Mar. 2026
This is a bonanza for what has tragically become the city’s largest slumlord.
—Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
Yes, tragically, a million Irish natives starved to death in the Potato Famine that began in 1845.
—David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
Jarosz was tragically killed in a traffic accident the following year.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragically
Adverb
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While Brandon and Rosa Williams bear the ultimate responsibility for these heinous actions, there are, sadly, others to blame as well.—
Vaughan Bagley,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Mar. 2026
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Not so much because Paul puts on-again, off-again partner Dakota Mortensen into a headlock and then pelts him with metal bar stools — sadly, this is a scene that would not be out of place on many reality shows — but because a small child is in the room.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Many of these songs have unfortunately become more relevant today, with the atrocities committed against innocent civilians in conflicts around the world, to the extrajudicial killing of Americans at home.—
Christina Hioureas,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2026
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This is an issue that unfortunately people think is binary.—
Faith Salie,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Their answer to having to tolerate difference is whatever means are necessary to stop liberalization, and lamentably, our Bill of Rights and governmental checks on the executive mean that taking a jack hammer to our nation’s foundation is a necessary means to a repugnant end.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Plus, it must be said, some proper mileage and, regrettably so, a certain carbon footprint.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
4 Mar. 2026
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The software disruption worries have, regrettably, ensnared the cybersecurity names.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Even high productivity numbers may not be enough to pay the government’s debts, and there will be many people unhappily and under-employed.—
Allison Schrager,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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But a Democratic victory in 2026 is not likely to end this cycle, in which majorities hate how both parties handle immigration and ping-pong unhappily between them.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Tragically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragically. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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