causation
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Although those findings did not establish causation, they provided additional reasons to investigate the potential connection.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Mr. Vance’s history of America’s institutional decline may have the causation backward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Correlation doesn’t prove causation, but, wow, the correlation here is striking.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
I was careful not to formally assert the level of causation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
In principle, one expects the chain of causation to operate in both directions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
Chronic Inflammation.—A variety of types of chronic and subacute inflammation are met with which, owing to ignorance of their causations, cannot at present be satisfactorily classified.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
IN their precise tracings-out and subtile causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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