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causation

[kaw-zay-shuhn] / kɔˈzeɪ ʃən /






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We like to think our lives are ordered by easily understood causation, a chain of big, identifiable things connected by logic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Correlation doesn’t prove causation, but, wow, the correlation here is striking.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

The study is cross-sectional, which means it cannot determine cause and effect and may be influenced by confounding factors or reverse causation.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

I was careful not to formally assert the level of causation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

A related question is: What is God’s role in causation?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The city of L.A. has still not declared an emergency regarding our untenable and inhumane homelessness crisis, nor taken significant steps to address the causations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Deisseroth says his laboratory research informs the psychiatric patient care that he continues to give, yet many of the landmark studies are about causations and chemical pathways in genetically modified mice, not humans.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Details of the Arizona tragedy will emerge and provide a fuller picture of the factors and causations.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2011

Roads were too bad, cities too difficult of access, travellers too rare, books too incapable of transmission, for any solution which should explain the chain of coincidences into a chain of natural causations.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

He is still only taking the first step in the sequence of causations.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs


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