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incredibly

 adverb
     
in‧cred‧i‧bly S3
1 [+adjective/adverb] informal extremely:
Nicotine is incredibly addictive.
2 [sentence adverb] in a way that is hard to believe:
The knife had pierced his heart, but incredibly he was still alive.
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