1
as in blessing
a prayer calling for divine care, protection, or favor
the priest offered a benediction for the missing children
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as in benefit
something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing
the library's silence was a welcome benediction to someone, like me, who needed to concentrate
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Recent Examples of benediction
After the address, there will be benedictions by Rabbi Ari Berman, Imam Husham al Husainy, Senior Pastor Lorenzo Sewell and Reverend Father Frank Mann.
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Graham Kates, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2025
Even the pastor who delivered the benediction at Trump’s inauguration, Lorenzo Sewell, launched a memecoin called $LORENZO in an attempt to cash in.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
President Donald Trump’s inaugural benediction on the federal holiday that celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. included an homage to the civil rights leader’s legacy.
—Matt Brown, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
He was followed by a bar joke’s worth of benedictions—from a rabbi, a Catholic priest, and a Black evangelical pastor.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2025
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Graham Kates, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2025
Even the pastor who delivered the benediction at Trump’s inauguration, Lorenzo Sewell, launched a memecoin called $LORENZO in an attempt to cash in.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
President Donald Trump’s inaugural benediction on the federal holiday that celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. included an homage to the civil rights leader’s legacy.
—Matt Brown, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
He was followed by a bar joke’s worth of benedictions—from a rabbi, a Catholic priest, and a Black evangelical pastor.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for benediction
Noun
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If there's a ripple effect because of that, then that's a blessing.—
F. Amanda Tugade,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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That’s on a separate track from the review of the merger review, which needs the FCC’s blessing to approve the transfer of broadcast licenses.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2025
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The performance was part of a benefit concert for Cancer for College, a scholarship fund founded by Will’s longtime friend Craig Pollard, per Rolling Stone.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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Proponents of diffusion LLMs contend that another benefit is that coherence across large portions of text is more likely than with the autoregressive approach.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Trump's Cabinet meeting begins with a prayer President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting began with a prayer on Wednesday.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Catholic Church stands with immigrants, as Cardinal Robert McElroy reminded us in the recent prayer service at the cathedral.—
Scott Santarosa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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The solid-state aspect enables low latency beam direction control (in the order of microseconds) which is a boon for these applications.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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But in a welcome boon for a parched region, two more storms will follow within the week — one Monday, another Wednesday, according to the NWS.—
Sam Schulz,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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Its combination of art, gifts and apparel all bear elements of his signature design style, an array of colors that reflect Britto’s appreciation of artists Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Roy Lichtenstein.—
Ron Hurtibise,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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Feedback is a gift (even when someone shouts it at you).—
Forrester,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Benediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benediction. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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