be brought about
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“This has to be brought about by some top-down process in which some conscious part of the brain decides ‘I want to think of something now and then.’”
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
By minute 86, whiplash could be brought about in an attempt to turn away from the misery.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024
The end of humanity is far more likely to be brought about by multiple factors, Kemp says—a pileup of disasters.
From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2023
The force that before 1945 could only be brought about by hundreds of thousands of soldiers all consenting to fight remains compressed into a single weapon designed to be delivered by a single individual.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022
Similarly, the changes required to transform wild plants into crops can in principle be brought about by alternative new mutations or alternative courses of selection to yield equivalent results.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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