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In keeping with Ukrainian tradition, a priest has already been around to bless her new home.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“If somebody has the means to go to the Hamptons in a helicopter, God bless them,” Lasek said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The jokers Toth and Jackson, bless them, keep things endearing and funny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

“So happy anniversary. God bless you, and God bless the United States.”

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Show m’self indeed! How many pairs of eyes d’you want, young feller, eh, eh? Fine state of affairs, bless m’soul! What, what!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

If California blesses liability for the pace of innovation, other states will feel the pull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

The firm’s sole female partner, Close’s Dina Standish, blesses their exit, encouraging them to take Nash-Betts’ lead investigator, Emerald Greene, with them.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

As the echoing synth wanes, she blesses them and wishes them safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

And his mother blesses him with water and basil leaves to keep the bad vibrations away.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Uncle Leang looks at her, face hanging, eyes blinking rapidly, and blesses Ma for a safe journey.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Mr. Douglas was blessed to have a mother whose tenderness helped to compensate for the temper of his father, the movie star Kirk Douglas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This blessed return to artful thinking was echoed again last week, when AMC announced its new distribution venture, Leawood Films, dedicated to getting as many eyes as possible on small and entirely independent movies.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall says she is "lucky and blessed to be alive" after being involved in a car crash.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

We’re blessed that Fanning survived the transition from precocious child actor to grown-up movie star with the skills to play a fictional disaster rather than be one offscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“He will be blessed in heaven for such a good deed,” Grandfather pronounces.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

It is “twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017

"The nations, not so blest as thee / Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall; / While thou shalt flourish great and free, / The dread and envy of them all."

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2016

"In a land where movement is virtue, where the echo of heels clicking rapidly on pavement is inordinately blest, it is a grand, defiant, and edifying gesture to lie down for six months."

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2015

I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust.

From The Guardian ● May 26, 2014

I believe in all the people; in them we shall be blest, It is through the common people we shall find the promised rest.”

From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Asenath Carver Coolidge

Sitting shiva and reciting kaddish help a lost one’s memory become a blessing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Your $3 million windfall is a luxury, a blessing and, only if you let it, a curse.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

It’s a blessing of agency that sounds much easier to accept when you have more options than Cathy.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“SNL” lives in the now, and that can be a blessing and a curse, like when you feel like you’ve seen the same cold open lampooning President Trump 15 times already.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"You don't have to tell me. Do you want to know what my blessing was?"

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat