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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 her. She let me go out and live on ranches and run with other people to get away from him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

During his seven-day trip, Leo will make a speech to the Spanish parliament and bless the new tower of the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona -- now the world's tallest church.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

To come into effect, the New York Legislature still needs to approve the amendment a second time next year, and then voters have to bless the constitutional rewrite in a referendum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

“Sí. Mamá wants to bless you, too. Go to her now.”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

These are from the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus blesses the poor, the meek and the peacemakers, and then calls on his followers to turn the other cheek and love their enemies.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

When the archbishop freezes mid-prayer, as he blesses the King in the Coronation chair, another clergyman teases: "You must have said this before."

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023

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

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Her magic blesses us and all that we see.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

"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’ve had a super blessed writing career, but the highest highs I’ve ever had are on a baseball field.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

“I’m at 90% now, which is phenomenal. And I am truly blessed for it, but I can’t stop thinking of getting to 100%,” one wrote on Reddit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“I promise,” said Lucy, “and thank you both a thousand times for all your kindness to me! Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends?”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

Here rests his clay! his soul must ever rest, Who bless’d when living, dying must be blest.

From Curious Epitaphs by Various

For the last seven and a half weeks John has followed the Via Beata pilgrimage route, which means "way of blessing".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

So while mFlusiva has the FDA’s blessing, Kennedy’s handpicked panel could still recommend that only a subset of Americans—say, people with compromised immune systems—get it.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Being Black and Mexican is a blessing, but it also comes with an internal struggle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The single bright spot and mixed blessing to come out of all this is that her neighbors see Diarra as the go-to person for fixing lost causes and finding lost people.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

We laughed, and I felt like from that moment on, I had T's blessing to go on and do what I had to.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon