fortunately
Example Sentences
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The courts, fortunately, are seeing through this strategy.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
Perhaps fortunately, the pandemic forced the entire G7 event to be canceled in 2020.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I fortunately escaped without a wound, though the right wing where I stood was exposed to and received all the enemy’s fire,” he wrote after a 1754 skirmish with the French.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Among their finds is a fire extinguisher dating from 1942, newspapers from the week after D-Day, and a tin of "whole chicken in jelly" - fortunately empty.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
I, fortunately, have a seat, but by the aisle, not next to the window, and there are bodies pressed against my shoulder, my knee, invading my space.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
