blesses

verb

present tense third-person singular of bless
1
as in consecrates
to make holy through prayers or ritual the priest blessed the water, thus allowing it to be used as holy water for various rites

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2
as in celebrates
to proclaim the glory of bless the name of God

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3
as in gifts
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute blessed with a knack for glib conversation

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Recent Examples of blesses Bonuses for deal registration that brings new pipeline rather than blesses existing opportunities. — Jason Atkins, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 When Mother Nature blesses the area with heavy snow, tee up for a day of skiing at nearby Windham and Hunter mountains, post up with s’mores in front of the fire pits on the property, or unwind in its Finnish-style sauna. — Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 20 Aug. 2026 Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer blesses your 11th house of friends, community and long-term hopes, making collaboration warmer and all the more promising. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026 At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. — CBS News, 28 May 2026 Comfort spreads as the fertile Moon blesses your home zone and sextiles therapeutic Chiron in your 6th House of Sustainability. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2026 Even though Saturn will test this relationship or agreement over the coming years, Venus’ trine to Jupiter on February 22 blesses the professional endeavors that are beginning around this time. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026 Honest words land softly as this Moon-Chiron trine blesses your 3rd House of Local Life, especially with Luna steadying your overall tone. — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026 But a world where any country can topple another’s rulers, as long as it is preceded into battle by an opposition party that blesses its military action, will be awfully messy. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blesses
  1. consecrates
  2. celebrates
  3. gifts
  4. dedicates
  5. praises
  6. endows
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  • In the reading, 1 Kings Chapter 9, God warns King Solomon against turning away from him as Solomon consecrates the temple in Jerusalem.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 18 May 2026
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  • Saturday celebrates the 35th anniversary of Fat Wreck Chords, with Dillinger Four, Teenage Bottlerocket, Dead to Me, Swingin’ Utters, Codefendants, Cobra Skulls, Nerf Herder, Get Dead, and others.
    — Dick Slaughter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The south wing celebrates Arab architecture, while the north is more traditional European style.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of celebrates
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  • The family asked for donations to be made to the singer's Imagination Library, a children's literacy program that gifts free books to kids from birth to age 5, in lieu of flowers.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The account owner or any contributor then gifts after-tax dollars to the account.
    — Christine Fletcher, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of gifts
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  • Proposition 28 dedicates an amount equal to roughly 1% of California’s base education funding — nearly $1 billion a year — to arts programs.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Quan, 56, dedicates a chapter to attending that year’s awards ceremony (the SAG Awards have since been renamed the Actor Awards) with the cast of his 2022 hit Everything Everywhere All at Once in his new memoir Never Say Die.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • The editorial praises the Shedd for trying to save the whales in this time of crisis, even though the animals had a record of previous poor living conditions and dubious care.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Sandy praises her crew for performing efficiently under pressure, and gives out the $1,807 each of them earned from a $23,500 tip.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of praises
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  • This extreme foregrounding of character in terms of action endows the cast with a retrospective air of typecasting, in a positive sense—the actors seem made for their parts, coalescing with their characters temperamentally.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The catharsis of moments like this—and the unpredictability with which they’re deployed—endows Oen Sujet’s music with delight worth chasing, but the climb doesn’t always feel equal to the drop.
    — Maxie Younger, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
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