Example Sentences

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She then carries her grief through “Desierto,” a banda ballad that hexes a past love to an eternity of dreary karmic payback.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

An $11,000 karmic windfall seems nice, but it is too good to be true.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2023

The connection between Duff’s work and his granddaughter’s treatment formed a tight karmic loop.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023

A cohort of 17 such karmic point-scorers make up “Paint the Protest” at Off Paradise, a group show organized by Nancy Spector, the former artistic director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

Vinny had an almost karmic concern about making so much money so quickly.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis