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n. - (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.

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  • If I am guessing right, this might just end up coming back to me in 'karma' fashion.
  • That kind of karma is helping the Tampa Bay Lightning deliver on coach John Tortorella's guarantee.
  • But sometimes, I believe karma is a greater force.
  • I can only tell him that karma is now computerized.
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  • A "coma" is an unconscious condition caused by accident or disease, a "comma" is a mark of punctuation that looks like (,) and indicates a pause in a sentence, while "karma" is the Hindu belief that actions determine a person's destiny in his or her next
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