unhappily

Example Sentences

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Unhappily for the FCC, the same force helping to keep the big game on local TV in the short run is undermining it in the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

"Unhappily we haven't reached an agreement today," Borrell said.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2023

Unhappily, the university as I knew it no longer exists.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2020

Unhappily married Nia Long comes to regret running into increasingly unhinged former flame Omar Epps in the new thriller “Fatal Affair.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2020

Unhappily, no supernova explosions have been observed in our Galaxy since the invention of the telescope, and astronomers have been chafing at the bit for some centuries.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan