How to Use dharma in a Sentence
dharma
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It’s held every 210 days and marks the triumph of good over evil, dharma over adharma.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
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The concepts of karma, dharma, and the eternal dance between fate and choice are deeply embedded in Indian culture.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
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Coltrane is also deeply interested in the Buddhist principles of karma and dharma, or the moral duties and obligations to a right way of life, which are sprinkled throughout the novel.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
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Here, in the rugged, remote Santa Cruz Mountains, one of California’s coastal ranges, the counterculture had found one of its first bucolic, dharma-bum milieus.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
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Undeniably, there are evocations of podhu-aram or sadharana dharma, a relatively universal code of ethics that is necessary to live in harmony with other human beings, with society, with nature.
—Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
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