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“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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 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

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

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

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

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

In González’s view, “God blesses those who shake hands with those who need it. I hope that the politicians think of us and give us that helping hand that we need.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often blesses them when they are used discreetly.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

And officials simultaneously blessed an untested idea pitched by wealthy prospective donors: pushing individual stocks directly into kids’ accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"We’re grateful that the pope has blessed us so that we can create his image," 48-year-old worker Lener Mendoza said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The head of the Catholic Church blessed several babies as he stopped at different stages along the avenue as chants of "Leo, Leo" rang out.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

With the receiver wedged against her shoulder, the cord stretched across the kitchen, she cooked, cleaned, and strained tinctures of goldenseal and blessed thistle, while having the same conversation over and over.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

Why, it's like one o' those Chow-chow dogs, I'm blest if it isn't!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various

At his weekly blessing on Sunday, the pope said doctors had recently found a small, localized nodule in his lung.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It would be ideal, if not absolutely necessary, if you each retired with the other’s blessing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“It’s a blessing for it to be brought to light,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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

He consents without a murmur, all join in a joyful chorus, and the curtain falls upon the lovers kneeling to receive Don Pedro’s blessing in attitudes of the most romantic grace.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott