WISHFULLY Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

wishfully

adverb

as in gladly

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Instead, North Korea has cultivated relations closer to home, especially with Russia, which has gladly accepted thousands of North Korean soldiers for the front lines of its war in Ukraine.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Roberts would gladly write Tucker’s name into the lineup deep into October.

— Katie Woo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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Kwon said the South Korean military removed a North Korean minefield around the blast site on Monday and will remove other North Korean minefields placed south of the border unless North Korea voluntarily eliminates them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Coxon voluntarily testified, and was joined by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, who testified under subpoena that the companies may not know when their safety work has failed.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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Neutron experiments instead found that the manganese spins remain essentially aligned.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Peggy Tanous isn’t there because she was inexplicably invited to RHUGT instead, and Peggy Sulahian isn’t there because Alex Baskin lost her number the second that season ended.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of instead

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Buyers can gain even more off-grid capability by optionally upgrading to a 750-Ah battery and 800-watt solar setup and/or adding on options like Starlink satellite internet, a Goodguards water filtration system and a Maxview 4x4 LTE 5G antenna.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
This includes cameras, microphones, and optionally radar, which watch the surrounding area in all directions.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

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