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View definitions for unfortunately

unfortunately

adverb as in unluckily

adverb as in inappropriately

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By Monday morning, the ECU911 emergency service said the figure had "unfortunately risen to 21."

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"It is unfortunately the main wedge issue in Canadian politics it seems like, and trust me when I say no one in Alberta wishes that their oil was the wedge issue in this country."

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What used to happen organically now requires effort to reproduce—and, unfortunately, too many organizations are failing at it.

“There are stereotypes that exist, unfortunately, particularly around young people and young girls, and I think we need to do the work to break those stereotypes down,” Welteroth told NPR in 2019.

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"I will never forget going to the secondary school in Amlwch and speaking to some of the young students and pupils there to unfortunately say that we were not progressing as a project," she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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