as in sadly
by bad fortune or luck
Unfortunately, you've just missed her.
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Recent Examples of unfortunately
What Ward experienced is a great historic crime and unfortunately there are tens of thousands of people who continue to suffer under those conditions every single day.
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
The compression of the NBA Finals, draft and free agency cycles into a two-week sip from the firehose unfortunately necessitates that moves like this happen now.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 June 2025
This, unfortunately, looks to be the case in the City of San Jose.
—Lupe Lopez, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
And unfortunately Jewish communities are paying the cost.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 8 June 2025
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
The compression of the NBA Finals, draft and free agency cycles into a two-week sip from the firehose unfortunately necessitates that moves like this happen now.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 June 2025
This, unfortunately, looks to be the case in the City of San Jose.
—Lupe Lopez, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
And unfortunately Jewish communities are paying the cost.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 8 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for unfortunately
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfortunately
sadly
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One of the biggest of these is a sadly inescapable one: What if Chadwick Boseman hadn’t died?—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
31 July 2025
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But sadly, neither of the adoptions in recent years in either Madison or Michigan survived for long, the Smithsonian report says.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
31 July 2025
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“Unfortunately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfortunately. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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