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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

My wife does the bulk of the troubleshooting on these problems, bless her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

God bless the Tartan Army in all their beery magnificence.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Haven’t one to bless myself with. I thought perhaps you’d had some news from home..”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

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

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

Billy receives his medicine through the NHS, something Charlotte said the family is "blessed" to have, but she argues that many needy patients are being left behind.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

Pong watched the monk—who had aged now, into the wrinkled version that he remembered so well—as he blessed a little girl.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

And when he had blest Ja-cob he went his way.

From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Josephine Pollard

"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

Owning, however, did not turn out to be the blessing she expected.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 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

“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

“Thank you for this blessing of food and company,” she said, then raised her head and smiled.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro