as in aura
a special quality or impression associated with something
as the site of a string of failed businesses, the building definitely had bad karma
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Recent Examples of karma
The Pacers deserved some good karma.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Time-and-date karma was always going to boomerang.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
There are 12 rules of karma in eastern philosophy.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 May 2026
But my religious upbringing included a system for generating good karma.
—Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Time-and-date karma was always going to boomerang.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
There are 12 rules of karma in eastern philosophy.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 May 2026
But my religious upbringing included a system for generating good karma.
—Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for karma
Noun
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All these stars share a certain aura of invincibility, not to mention access to top-tier medical care, personal nutritionists and chefs, and trainers.—
Petra Guglielmetti,
Glamour,
10 Dec. 2025
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His haunting eyes appear vacant in the animation aesthetic, which adds to his unsettling aura.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The atmosphere in Pine Ridge was explosive.—
Nick Estes,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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Activity in the upper atmosphere has been contributing to storm activity in the eastern Pacific and contributing to winds helping to keep storms tamped down in the Atlantic, meteorologists have said.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
Noun
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Harrison still evokes painterly fugues of light and pungent smells, but they’re offset by a growing bleakness, and there’s less humor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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According to Harvard Medicine, Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist at Brown University who studies the psychological science of smell, said scent has a direct line to how the body responds.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 June 2026
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“Karma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/karma. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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