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Recent Examples of mercifully
The second season mercifully pulls back on this, with Velma back to solving mysteries but sporting less toxic traits (just routine stuff like faking the occult to make a cool new kid look less smooth).
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Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
The guns might mercifully fall silent for now, but if history is any indication, the long war between Israel and Hamas will continue, in one form or another.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Even though there's no question that anthropogenic climate change has played a major role in the current run-up of the global mean sea level, some of the most histrionic predictions about pending inundations have mercifully remained just that.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
The house was mercifully razed by the new owners, but its eventual replacement was yet another McMansion that filled nearly every square foot of the property — the sort of construction that changed the community character for the worse over the years.
—James R. Riffel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
The guns might mercifully fall silent for now, but if history is any indication, the long war between Israel and Hamas will continue, in one form or another.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Even though there's no question that anthropogenic climate change has played a major role in the current run-up of the global mean sea level, some of the most histrionic predictions about pending inundations have mercifully remained just that.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
The house was mercifully razed by the new owners, but its eventual replacement was yet another McMansion that filled nearly every square foot of the property — the sort of construction that changed the community character for the worse over the years.
—James R. Riffel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Mercifully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercifully. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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