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Recent Examples of unhappily And while Americans have unhappily encountered other types of inflation in recent years — sky-high grocery prices have been credited with helping President-elect Donald Trump claim victory last month — health insurance can take on an even more personal edge, Thomas pointed out. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024 His thoughts about the environment, the future, and parenting come into sharp relief through his current job at a restaurant, where he is unhappily employed. Jade S. Sasser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024 Breton’s broader fight with X over the DSA’s compliance regime is still underway and looks likely to end up in the EU’s courts, almost certainly unhappily for Musk. The Editors, National Review, 15 Aug. 2024 If the link between neoliberalism and mass incarceration seems tenuous, the argument that incarceration is a mechanism that preserves racial hierarchy is unhappily convincing. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for unhappily 

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“Unhappily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhappily. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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