fortunately
Example Sentences
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I would have leaped to collaborate with her on any project, but fortunately nuclear Armageddon is also a preoccupation of mine.
From Los Angeles Times
These weren’t merely negative perceptions or ugly stereotypes, and fortunately these groups were willing to face reality.
The author relates her principal story, of the two sisters, in the present tense, while keeping historical context in the past—an idiosyncratic choice that, fortunately, doesn’t derail the book’s narrative momentum.
They went to Texas, where he was stationed, quite fortunately, as a teacher, rather than being sent off to war as so many young men were.
From Literature
In a statement following the inquiry announcement, the trust told the BBC the vast majority of births at Leeds were safe, and deaths of mothers and babies were fortunately very rare.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
