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

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Serving Western North Carolina has been the honor of my life,” he wrote on X. “Thank you for your trust, prayers, and support. God bless WNC and America.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

I was born here, and I love this country, and God bless us is all I can say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

God bless them for charming the good people of Boston and Miami and earning a full page feature in Wednesday's O Globo, Brazil's best-selling newspaper.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

God bless Rooster Jim; he kept my garden weeded and chickens happy that whole week.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

And then—the glory—so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

“And I was blessed with the gift of … developing a genuine, sincere friendship with Kyle that exists outside of the context of work.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

"I feel like I was very blessed to have a lot of my childhood kind of mixed in with that community."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“I’m very delighted and blessed and thrilled to say I’ve got so many grandparents now.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

They departed finally to the isles of the blessed, where they lived in perfect bliss forever.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

"By Jupiter!" exclaimed one of the crew; "blest if we haven't rammed a strafed U boat."

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"The grim physical state he found himself in has now ended, a blessing. Our blessing was that we had Tim Curry in our lives. RIP, my friend," he wrote.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Kalia recently started controlling agents from his Apple Watch, which is proving to be a blessing and a curse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

"It's one thing to be welcomed into this franchise, and it's a whole other blessing to then get to introduce a new aspect to this incredible world," Eve told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

“I take it as a blessing that I can help the team in any way that I can,” Slaughter said about potentially starting at center if Biadasz is sidelined for an extended period of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The blessing is that these heartbreaks are but a few of the patches in my prairie year quilt.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson