bless
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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
“To be a great classical actor is backbreakingly hard work because you can only do that through classical theater, and you can only do that through the governor, Shakespeare. But bless her, she was wonderful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Pope Leo XIV will bless the giant new tower of the famed Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona on Wednesday and celebrate mass inside what is now the world's tallest church.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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
And Boo says: “Ga bless Mommy. Calm home soon.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
It blesses the farms and the orchards and the gardens.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Speculation began well before the blessed events of July 3rd.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
He has been blessed with terrific talent but clearly has melded that talent to win games and keep the clubhouse on the same page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
In a meeting of two sides currently blessed by golden generations of talent, it was the Moroccans who shone.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“When Mexico plays, many fans pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe to help them push the ball,” said Francisco Acero, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Mexico, who blessed the renovated stadium this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Rather, it has strengthened it: had there not been what has been, I might never have known how blessed we were.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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
In February 2025, Stenberg posted a since-deleted nine-minute TikTok addressing the controversy and told followers that Adeyemi had given the actor her blessing when cast as the series’ princess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s odd and discordant with a strange magic all its own — a blessing in what’s otherwise a lame remix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
This reading seems almost absurdly reductive; for one of many differences, Humbert Humbert is well aware that what he is doing is wrong, whereas the Iranian regime is confident it enjoys the blessing of God.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Maybe it's a blessing that Glastonbury's taken a year off.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Yes, obviously some sort of blessing from Mars. Congratulations, blah, blah, blah. Now, if we’re done here...?”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
