How to Use causality in a Sentence
causality
noun- Scientists found no causality between the events.
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But a sense of causality is needed to make a plot more than just a sequence of events.
—The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
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Trump and his allies have viewed the causality the other way around.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
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This is a question of causality.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
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Last night’s series finale tried to land the plane, but there were many, many causalities.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 31 May 2023
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There’s causality and cause and effect.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
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But that method isn't the only way to figure out causality, or at least to start to get a sense of it.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
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But their theories don't find causality between cannabis use and hard drug use.
—Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
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For instance, causality tells us that an effect should be preceded in time by a cause.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2020
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This is an instance of causality at work, not a violation of causal law.
—Kieran Setiya, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2023
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That’s a false causality, to assume that his hair grease is a direct result of time passing.
—Anthony Veasna So, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020
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Last month, four rockets landed near the embassy but did not result in any causalities.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2020
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The humanity comes from how, inside these causality loops, there is no more free will.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2019
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The lashes, once curled, become causality loops.
—Fiona Landers, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
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The American sports scene is one of the high profile causalities.
—David Moore, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2020
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The data fit many of the tests for causality, researchers say, but doesn’t prove that cannabis causes psychosis.
—Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2019
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To Trump, that is a causality of war, and the war will always be the cops against everyone who is not white.
—Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 28 July 2017
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Politicians tend to end up with the vector of causality pointing in the wrong direction.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
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But supporting the presence of the shows does not require comfort with that causality.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
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But causality is the mother of all clichés, and the clichés don’t fall far from the midlife-reckoning industry.
—Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
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The child also understands causality and the passage of time since the blocks must be stacked first before they can be knocked down.
—Charles Simon, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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The light cones of events become indefinite — and thus, so does causality itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2021
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With brain-imaging studies, the samples are small, and the causality is uncertain.
—Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
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The link between poor diet and mood disorders has been long known, but what has been less clear is the direction of causality.
—Max Lugavere, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
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So those models don’t have any notion of causality — the requirement that cause comes before effect.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2023
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The website of the Dutch registry clearly notes its reports do not imply causality.
—Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 1 July 2021
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In some sense, each event seemed to cause the other, a phenomenon that came to be called indefinite causality.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
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Whether corollary or causality, this dip has coincided with the rise in importance of search firms in the hiring sphere.
—Brandon Lilly, Fortune, 19 July 2019
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Sometimes, but often not in the way they were intended, and rarely in ways that confirm obvious causality.
—Jim Small, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
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There is also stronger evidence to make assertions about causality.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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