occasioned

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Mr. Trueman contends that the loss of belief in man’s sacredness, depending as it did on a belief in God, occasioned the descent into confusion we constantly regret, without knowing quite why.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Caesar, Hegel writes, was driven by “an unconscious impulse that occasioned the accomplishment of that for which the time was ripe.”

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Dr Perumbalath resigned, saying at the time it was "not a resignation occasioned by fault or by any admission of liability".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

But by excluding the locals, the FBI has now occasioned the public to question who should be doing that investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Oh, Shun, you scarce can think of the Panic this Word occasioned.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson