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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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Shareholders would have to bless any deal at Tesla, where Musk now holds just under 20% of the vote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

There, he will bless a plaque dedicated to Pope Francis -- who chose Lampedusa for his very first trip following his election in 2013 -- before celebrating mass in a sports field.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

“Let’s bless the food. We can’t be late for Sunday school.”

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

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

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

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

She wrote: "Autism blesses those of us who have it with the ability to spot fakes from a mile off."

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2022

It blesses the Bog and the Forest and even the Volcano.

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

“It’s more blessed to give than receive,” said Allen.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

He also blessed us with one of the most heartbreaking lines of this decade: “What is grief if not love persevering?”

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The former cancer patient said she had met the pope last year in Rome, "and he blessed me for a successful treatment."

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

"I'm so blessed and privileged to be in the position to represent my country. It's a dream I'm living right now."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

He kneels to touch the blessed earth and then—he is rushing rushing, for the house.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

In a less romantic spirit the writer of this article may boast in old age, should he attain to such blest condition, that "When I was young a king spoke to me."

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

One thing that is both a blessing and a curse of the era we’re in is that there’s a pendulum that swings, a dialectic that takes place.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

Evacuees from Oleshky, a bombed-out city in Russian-occupied Ukraine, told AFP that residents had to eat grass and dogs to survive and that their rescue following a humanitarian truce was a "blessing".

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

As a paediatric nurse herself, she previously said her medical knowledge had been both "a blessing and a curse".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

We get double the amount of practice time, so I think that’s a blessing when you have new guys.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

He shut his eyes and remembered her smiling at him and telling him with a wink what her blessing from the old monk had been: May your courage never falter.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat