causes
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NCDs cover eight of the top 10 causes of death, with cardiovascular diseases the biggest killer by far, claiming almost 20 million deaths a year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The Rays suggested a few mechanical changes that they had identified as potential causes for his unexplained struggles in his brief tenure with the last-place Mets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Medical debt is still one of the major causes of bankruptcy in America.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
This movement of hot gas causes the atmosphere on the evening side to expand farther outward than it does on the cooler "morning" side.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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