tragically

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tragically
Adverb
  • Now, perhaps sadly, the site may make more financial sense as just another high-rise mixed-use project with a big-box anchor retail tenant.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In the absence of moonlight, a single observer might see 45 to 90 meteors per hour on the peak night, a number that sadly cannot be hoped to be approached in 2025.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Sponsored by the gig companies, Prop. 22 effectively exempted their drivers, but unfortunately not all gig workers, from the severe controls imposed by Assembly Bill 5, which had been passed in 2018 mainly as an attack on gig companies.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But unfortunately that is the religion for most people in a capitalist world.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Well, regrettably, a lot of really lousy apps that purport to do mental health advisement could flood the marketplace.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In medieval Europe through to the eighteenth century, people saw it as separate from the body—a substance extruded like, regrettably, excrement.
    Book Marks August 1, Literary Hub, 1 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Some lived unhappily at the club, unable to maximise their talent or contribute to success.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • These checks on presidential powers have not only been heeded by the men in power, however unhappily, but have become part of case law.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2025
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“Tragically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tragically. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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