How to Use mixed blessing in a Sentence

mixed blessing

noun
  • This has been something of a mixed blessing.
    — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The rise of cheap goods and e-commerce has been a mixed blessing for these villages.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The rise of cheap goods and e-commerce has been a mixed blessing for these villages.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The brisk pace required to cover so much ground in just eight hours is a mixed blessing.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Wallace Shawn’s career must be a mixed blessing.
    — Charles Lewis Iii, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Social media has also been a boon for Von, if a mixed blessing.
    — Alison Abbey, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Commercial success proved to be a mixed blessing.
    — Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The streamer content feeding frenzy has proved, in her view, a mixed blessing.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • What To Know Despite the dangers, the rain has been a mixed blessing.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Some academic studies have shown that workplace friendships can be a mixed blessing.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Paintings integrating her studio and home life are a mixed blessing.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Maturing is a mixed blessing, but failing to mature is an undiluted curse.
    — John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • And finally, Trump himself represents a mixed blessing for such a project.
    — Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2017
  • And that’s a decidedly mixed blessing for a franchise that had prospered so much by it, only to be done in by it this season.
    — Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Automation has been a mixed blessing for warehouse workers.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • That might be a mixed blessing for Hoosiers after possibly one of the driest Septembers on record.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Artificial intelligence is proving to be, as most things in life, a mixed blessing for the news business.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2025
  • These woes are a mixed blessing for Western countries, whose economies are intertwined with China’s.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Flash flooding in the South The forecast thunderstorms could be a mixed blessing for parts of the South.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • Already challenged by overtourism, this can be turn out to be a mixed blessing in Paris and the French Riviera.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • But Ryan Warsofsky, the Sharks head coach — the league’s youngest, at 38 — views those changes as a mixed blessing.
    — Dan Robson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In a mixed blessing, AMD reported some sales of older chips in China.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For Shōgun fans, this is a mixed blessing, as reflected in our Vulture discussion.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 May 2024
  • But for farmers in West Africa, where the majority of the globe’s cocoa is grown, the higher prices have been a mixed blessing.
    — thehustle.co, 12 Apr. 2024
  • When my husband and I bought a beach condo six months ago as an investment property, the fact that it came fully furnished was a mixed blessing.
    — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • Cody Bellinger is back with the Cubs, which is at least somewhat of a mixed blessing for Jed Hoyer and the team’s front office.
    — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In general, virtual reality has been deemed a mixed blessing.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 16 Feb. 2024
  • For his part, the Lord Protector was granted immortality, a mixed blessing to be sure.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • Even now, Yanovska said the opening of her new Pompano Beach museum sometimes feels like a mixed blessing.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Restoration of services is a mixed blessing for some workers, as huge backlogs of paperwork now need entering into digital systems.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 July 2024

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