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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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Nearby, Iowa state congressman Eddie Andrews was hanging off the back of a farm tractor draped with stars-and-stripes livery, shouting "God bless America!" at the top of his lungs to crowds headed toward the Mall.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

He just looked at me and, God bless Bucky, he smiled.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

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

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

Many Sparks said they felt blessed to have formed relationships with Leslie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

"I have made mistakes, but I have been blessed to be a priest and a bishop over the past 49 years."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

Our revised route blessed us with hundreds of encounters with pilgrims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Son of Ivan Yedinitsa Ivanovich Ivanov, your blessed father’s imperial fool.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

Such is their pure affection: a love which age can never wither, a love born of a prayer, and blest by God.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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 wasn’t just walking back from the marriage scheme—he was giving me his blessing to work in the store again.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu