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  • present tense form of cause (3rd person singular).
  • plural of cause.
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causes

NOUN
whys and wherefores
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AI ethicists have dismissed attempts to treat AI systems as autonomous agents as creative ways for the AI labs to skirt accountability for the harm their software causes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Despite a round of antivirals, the flare turned into the painful condition Bell’s palsy, a complication that causes muscle weakness and drooping, often in one side of the face.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Astronomers can use these changes to search for planets because an orbiting planet's gravity causes its host star to move slightly back and forth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Probable causes of their insanity are listed as fright, love, grief, childbirth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

But it could not show the mechanism which causes light to reflect or refract, or the particles that cause smells.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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