adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mercifully , the screaming ended.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for the workings of the watch, there was another item this world was mercifully without: uranium.
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It is a piece with few reasons to be a film, and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status.
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Making a mylar sheet is mercifully silent and you can do this almost anywhere you can find a working surface.
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Perfect excuse on the mercifully rare occasions when he hinted, showed any interest.
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Then, slowly, mercifully , humor and affection grew.
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There is a caravan park, mercifully hidden from the village street.
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What might have happened if the rider and horse hadn't arrived, mercifully she never discovered.