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
Analyses like this can’t determine causality.
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Paul Spann, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
But in response to the small-scale study (which to date, hasn’t appeared in a medical journal), experts are calling for additional research to further investigate the causality behind this potential link, the New York Times reported.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
And while correlation between methylation and gene expression was strong, causality was not proven.
—New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2025
And, therefore, that even your basic notions of causality may not apply in such extreme conditions.
—Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2025
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Paul Spann, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
But in response to the small-scale study (which to date, hasn’t appeared in a medical journal), experts are calling for additional research to further investigate the causality behind this potential link, the New York Times reported.
—Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
And while correlation between methylation and gene expression was strong, causality was not proven.
—New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2025
And, therefore, that even your basic notions of causality may not apply in such extreme conditions.
—Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for causality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for causality
Noun
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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women, behind lung cancer, although death rates have been decreasing over the last three decades.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Nobody wants to be seen by voters as the cause of a shutdown that will leave many federal workers without pay and some services closed.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Ultimately, lawyers will have to prove causation, which hasn't yet been established.—
Sydney Lupkin,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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As such, nutritional research is often observational, with health records pulled from large datasets like the UK Biobank, where only correlation, not causation, can be demonstrated.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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