Grateful or thankful?
We use grateful to talk about how we feel when someone is kind to us or does us a favour: …

thankful | American Dictionary

thankful
adjective
us/ˈθæŋk·fəl/
pleased or grateful:
[ + that clause ]I was thankful that school was over.

thankfully

adverbus/ˈθæŋk·fə·li/
It’s been hard work, but thankfully it’s finished.

Examples of thankful

thankful
The authors are thankful to an anonymous referee for his comments and suggestions, which have led to an improved version of the article.
Practitioners will want to check their own details, and most of us will be thankful that we have got away so lightly.
I am thankful to the anonymous reader for raising this issue.
I am thankful for and appreciate their help.
The president had good reasons to be thankful.
The author is also very thankful to the referees for fruitful comments.
Perhaps we should be thankful that the editors have avoided some of the theoretical entanglements of the 1990s.
The author is thankful to the referee for his comments on this paper.
The authors are thankful for this suggestion from the anonymous referees.
We are likewise thankful to our reviewers for their relevant comments and suggestions for the manuscript's improvement.
We are thankful to the property owners for permission to conduct this work in their properties.
I am thankful to the participants of those seminars for their suggestions.
I am thankful for these splendid opportunities that have come my way.
They should be thankful for the food they have, for there are millions of sisters for whom such food is unattainable.
I am thankful to an anonymous referee for suggesting it.
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