karma

Example Sentences

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A high-school English teacher near Houston was fired after she wrote on Facebook that she thought karma played a role in Kirk’s death, according to the lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

There’s a karma to these places: donate well-loved, gently used items, and never use thrift or resale shops as a trash bin.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025

Many Thai men also choose to temporarily ordain as monks to accumulate good karma.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025

As he says in the fourth Doll novel, which I’m currently writing: “Bad karma is my business model.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2024

Exposing my middle-school creepitude to Alyssa should be reason enough, but that was really just my own karma coming back to bite me.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman