tragic
The space shuttle tragically broke up during reentry from orbit after 17 days in space.
The life of this joyful and vibrant young woman has been cut tragically short.
Tragically, he died without ever seeing his child.
The young girl just slipped over the edge into a waterfall and was tragically killed.
They gave a performance of the symphony that was as tragically dark as any I've ever heard.

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Examples of tragically

tragically
They were very well aware of the dangers that they faced, very well qualified to undertake them, and tragically unfortunate in their lack of success.
Their protests bring home to us the iron limits, the tragically narrow borders, of us-ism.
When her father tragically loses his sight, she will come to terms with the meaning of family.
Tragically he died doing what he loved - jogging in the country.
But when the issue becomes painfully if not tragically personal for enough of us, the status quo may no longer hold true.
As the manuscripts were formerly part of the crown prince's collection, they must have been assembled before his tragically early death in 1731.
Somewhat unfashionably, he points out how anti-communism tragically inhibited these moves toward a more integrated community.
To view the bulldozer years as merely representing the megalomania of a dictator, as most commentators have, is to misrepresent the decade tragically.
Unfortunately he died tragically young, at the height of his powers, within two years of his appointment.
It is an active presence that is tragically under-appreciated and misunderstood in this post-modern world.
And a number of veteran amputees discuss their disillusionment with the war and with the aftercare that each of them so tragically embodies.
The first and last years of the annexation were tragically similar in that they were begun and concluded under military dictatorship.
Tragically, each label in effect denied her a service.
Tragically, he died from cancer at the early age of forty-eight just as this first issue moved into production.
Tragically, not just the particular theories, but theory itself suffered a loss of credibility because of the manifest shortcomings of what occurred when it was turned into practice.
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