unfortunately
Fortunately, we had come prepared.
Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
Fortunately, my coat was still where I had left it.
Fortunately, the ball just missed the window.
Fortunately, we got to the shop just before it shut.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Good luck and bad luck
align
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
be bad luck on someoneidiom
be down on your luckidiom
be in/out of luckidiom
blessing
fortune smiles on someoneidiom
get the short end of the stickidiom
godsend
grace
hapless
mercifully
mercy
miracle
misadventure
mischance
streak
voodoo
with any luckidiom
your luck's in!idiom

Examples of fortunately

fortunately
Fortunately, rice scientists do have some cards up their sleeves.
Fortunately, unlike moment estimators, it is relatively easy to incorporate a model of genotyping errors into the triadic likelihood estimator of relatedness.
Fortunately, in our view, a growing number of researchers are not viewing quantitative and qualitative methods as either/or options.
Fortunately, then, the disenchantment of our world is less complete than we presumed it to be.
Fortunately, it does not have to be resolved when approaching the problem from a falsificationist point of view.
Inevitably, health and safety legislation generates a plethora of acronyms, which are fortunately well covered by a 12-page appendix.
It has been carefully edited, with detailed and extensive annotation, with one inexplicable but fortunately not serious exception.
Fortunately, such a problem can be identified and resolve easily.
Fortunately festivals are enormously exhausting affairs, so all we did in the room was to hit the bed and sleep.
Fortunately the first chapter's background section and orientation to the issues provides a useful reference.
Fortunately, at no time in the history of psychology and sociology have there been so many long-term longitudinal studies underway than at the present time.
Fortunately for their intended victims, a series of high-profile acquittals# began to dampen their enthusiasm for libel prosecutions.
Fortunately, this problem can also be defined away, since for walls, we need only probability upper bounds.
Fortunately, some of the areas that were more or less neglected in the justmentioned volume have recently been covered by separate monographs.
Fortunately many documents, manuscripts, and personal papers with regard to these questions are preserved in the archives of these countries.
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