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What does fortunately mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fortunately? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In a fortunate manner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.
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The first followed a head on collision with a bus, where she had to be cut out of the car and fortunately her only injury was severe whiplash.
The ageless Neal Ascherson is one of Scotland's great national assets, fortunately now repatriated in common with the Stone of Destiny.
I have grown-up children and fortunately they were never big ice-cream lovers.
But fortunately for my self-righteous and judgemental streak, I can't afford to indulge in fashion.
And fortunately none of us were hurt and we gave it up as a bad job, to bury the cattle.
Perhaps fortunately for Finley, he is usually a slow starter and thus is used to overcoming slumps.

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