of/from natural causes

idiom

: because of old age or an illness
He died of/from natural causes.

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Three days later, Carl died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 May 2025 Publicist Harlan Boll says Swit died Friday at her home in New York City, likely from natural causes. Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025 For the next five decades, until both men died of natural causes, their lives would be intertwined, the football player and the Vegas fixer who became central characters in a nationwide gambling scandal. Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 May 2025 One of the avenues of inquiry is that the baby may have died of natural causes, a source said. Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for of/from natural causes

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