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Merriam-Webster gives a usage note on its entry for "hopefully"; the editors point out that the disjunct sense of the word dates to the early 18th century and has been in widespread use since at least the 1930s. Objection to this sense of the word, they state, became widespread only in the 1960s. The Merriam Webster editors maintain that this usage is "entirely standard".<ref>"hopefully." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2007. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=hopefully {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929165541/http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=hopefully |date=2007-09-29 }} (15 Aug. 2007).</ref>
There are similar complications with the term "doubtless" or "doubtlessly". "Alex doubtlessly ran out of gas" either means Alex was doubtless when he ran out of gas, or the speaker is doubtless in declaring that Alex ran out of gas.
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