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Godsend


Definition:

  • (n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The trend has grown apace since Tarantino's double Bill proved a financial godsend for Miramax, while audience resistance has dwindled to nothing.
  • (2) In terms of building a database, it's a godsend, and it could safeguard not just the Valley of the Kings, but all of Egypt's heritage sites."
  • (3) When you are confronted with a mass of material on learning disability, easy-read versions can be a godsend.
  • (4) For someone who loves art but to whom the art world sounds like babbling in an invented language, this is godsend.
  • (5) "Whenever the Democratic party nominates a Catholic it is a godsend, because otherwise the abortion issue is secondary," said Father Richard McBrien, a theologian at Notre Dame University.
  • (6) Going through puberty and having a counter-message to all the crap about women's bodies and sexuality that I was beginning to be aware of was an absolute godsend.
  • (7) Vladimir Putin’s unexpected ascent to power in 2000 was, for many, a godsend.
  • (8) Gilmore says e-cigarettes could be seen as "a godsend for the tobacco industry.
  • (9) Whether you view this as a vindication of basic rights to control our own personal data online, or a worrying trend for the public record online, it is an undoubted godsend to revenge porn victims.
  • (10) They used the Framingham Heart Study – a longitudinal study of the population of a small Massachusetts town near Boston which was started in 1948 to investigate risk for heart disease but has since become a godsend for social research because of the wealth of information that continues to be collected from generation after generation of residents.
  • (11) But to the rows of women, cuddling their babies, this place was a godsend.
  • (12) For people such as Nibal Shkirm, a Syrian teacher from Aleppo, who landed in Lesbos with her four children and husband last week, the groups have been a godsend.
  • (13) Japanese researchers have shown that augmented reality can trick people into feeling full by making food on the plate appear larger than it is (a godsend to dieters).
  • (14) The QE injection was a godsend to the eurozone, which has so far – but perhaps not for much longer – scorned the idea of turning on the electronic printing presses.
  • (15) Cloning shows up in movies as varied as The Boys From Brazil, Sleeper, Multiplicity, Gattaca, Godsend and Twins.
  • (16) But the SRA was a godsend for Jim Steer and his dreams of speed.
  • (17) For Edinburgh zoo the pandas are a godsend after the most difficult period in its 102-year history.
  • (18) Supplementing my weekly food shop, which came in at around £10 a week, with five items handed out from the food bank, was a godsend.
  • (19) This similarity may prove to be a godsend for astronomers.
  • (20) In the end, though, her career turned out to be a godsend.

Godspeed


Definition:

  • (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
  • (2) And if you’re feeling nostalgic for the weirdness and boobery of 2012 (godspeed Rafalca ), you can enjoy the fact that Scott Walker’s veneration of Ronald Reagan verges on a cultic unease far worse than any evangelical paranoia about Romney’s Mormonism.
  • (3) There have been high-profile support slots for post-rockers Sigur Rós and Godspeed You!
  • (4) Godspeed to the heroic Iraqi forces, Kurdish peshmerga, and Ninewa volunteers.
  • (5) So good luck, and Godspeed.” In contrast to the large number of commutations, Obama has only pardoned 64 prisoners, fewer than all his predecessors since James Garfield’s six-month tenure as president in 1881.
  • (6) Without revisiting stale debates about the 'big society' and citizen empowerment, and localism versus centralism, I wished godspeed to Thame.

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