proximately

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The damage “was proximately and substantially caused by the actions of Defendants ... and each of them ... caused Plaintiffs’ damages,” the complaint said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

In the proposed deal, known as a “stipulation,” Boeing admits “liability for the compensatory damages proximately caused by the ET 302 accident,” in which 157 people died in March 2019.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

“For example, if the plaintiffs in this case cannot recover on their excessive force claim, that will not foreclose recovery for injuries proximately caused by the warrantless entry,” Alito wrote.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2017

It may be a ‘practical impossibility to prove that the alleged malpractice of the teacher proximately caused the learning deficiency of the plaintiff student.’

From Time • Nov. 11, 2014

First, with regard to the species of that act, as compared to the virtue proximately eliciting it.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint