unfortunately

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Carefully planned and calculated" is a great recipe for building a bridge, but not for building a font, unfortunately.

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by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"

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The clearest senses and uses of unfortunately gathered in one view.

adverb

by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unfortunately.

adverb

by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"

Example sentences

Carefully planned and calculated" is a great recipe for building a bridge, but not for building a font, unfortunately.

Not having either, unfortunately, leads to experiences exactly like what the OP had.

I read a great article a while back that I unfortunately can't find now, but it talked about a CEO who thought he was having a casual "hey, I'm interested in developing my skills, can you mentor me a bit?" conversation with another exec.

This type of thinking is unfortunately widespread among humans everywhere. It is never moral and often unwise to support a system you would not support if you did not have a favorable position within it.

This kind of Monday morning quarterbacking is unfortunately usually done by people who've never shipped a drug or device in their lives, like most politicians, journalists, or federal regulators. Twitter, unlike Genzyme[2], is not fined millions of dollars by the FDA when its site is down.