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miraculous

 adjective
     
mi‧rac‧u‧lous
1 very good, completely unexpected, and often very lucky:
She made a miraculous recovery from her injuries.
They had a miraculous escape when their car plunged into a river.
2 a miraculous action or event is believed to be caused by God, and is impossible according to the ordinary laws of nature:
miraculous powers of healing
—miraculously adverb:
Miraculously, no one was killed.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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