Examples of owing to in a Sentence
She walks with a limp owing to a childhood injury.
owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June
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The Rolling Stones will no longer embark on a planned, though never formally announced, 2026 stadium tour throughout Europe, owing to Keith Richards’s unwillingness to subject himself to the stress of such a rigorous schedule.
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Even before his ascent to energy secretary, Moniz was controversial among progressives owing to his prior advisory work for energy companies such as British Petroleum and General Electric.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2025
By then, the public had also soured on nuclear-energy projects, owing to the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, in 1979.
—Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Many of the largest companies by market capitalization including Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta Platforms have seen their valuations soar owing to investor enthusiasm as AI adoption accelerates.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
Even before his ascent to energy secretary, Moniz was controversial among progressives owing to his prior advisory work for energy companies such as British Petroleum and General Electric.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2025
By then, the public had also soured on nuclear-energy projects, owing to the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, in 1979.
—Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Many of the largest companies by market capitalization including Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta Platforms have seen their valuations soar owing to investor enthusiasm as AI adoption accelerates.
—John Kell, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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