as in cause
someone or something responsible for a result
a supreme being is a being that, by definition, has no causality of its own
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Recent Examples of causality
The lashes, once curled, become causality loops.
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Fiona Landers, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
Assigning causality in such cases is like trying to force a freshly-shucked oyster into the coin slot of a parking meter, and nearly as ridiculous.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 Nov. 2025
There’s causality and cause and effect.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
These studies, like most studies that assess environmental exposures, typically cannot determine causality between agricultural-pesticide exposure and autism risk.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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Fiona Landers, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
Assigning causality in such cases is like trying to force a freshly-shucked oyster into the coin slot of a parking meter, and nearly as ridiculous.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 Nov. 2025
There’s causality and cause and effect.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
These studies, like most studies that assess environmental exposures, typically cannot determine causality between agricultural-pesticide exposure and autism risk.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for causality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for causality
Noun
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Hicks' cause of death was asphyxiation and his manner of death was ruled a suicide.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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But Thursday night also did little to help Steyer’s cause — or hurt it.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Car accident cases turn heavily on fault allocation, insurance coverage analysis, and the medical documentation of injury causation.—
Anton Lucanus
May 7,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2026
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This response only makes sense on surface level and has the causation backward.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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