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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

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

“Show m’self indeed! How many pairs of eyes d’you want, young feller, eh, eh? Fine state of affairs, bless m’soul! What, what!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

He blesses me in Latin, talks to himself in English and I wonder what I did to him.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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

We’re blessed that Fanning survived the transition from precocious child actor to grown-up movie star with the skills to play a fictional disaster rather than be one offscreen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

At the Maria Cabrales school, principal Regla Maria Perera, 64, said there is an art to running a school that has no electricity and is not blessed with good natural light.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

An Air Force general blessed with the surname of Power warned a shaken Senate committee that the Russians could render this country defenseless with a missile strike lasting only thirty minutes.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

Here rests his clay! his soul must ever rest, Who bless’d when living, dying must be blest.

From Curious Epitaphs by Various

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

Even the American Bison Society, founded in 1905 with Roosevelt’s blessing, ran on private money—its members raised about $10,000 to buy the herd that stocked a new federal preserve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

When I was really little, I remember old people would come to our door to have me touch them, like I could give them a blessing or something.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri