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
Visceral fear of the ever-changing rules and punishments made people give up on description and causality.
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Nan Z. Da
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
To reach advanced machine intelligence, AI must go beyond perception and understand how the physical world works — anticipating dynamics, causality, and consequences.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Raises 'Cover-up' Question Over Joe Biden Cancer Diagnosis Joe Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive Form' of Prostate Cancer
While the study identifies a significant association, causality has not been definitively established.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
The assumption that a physical, geographic territory can map onto a distinct body of literature implies a false causality, Dimock observes.
—Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for causality
Nan Z. Da
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
To reach advanced machine intelligence, AI must go beyond perception and understand how the physical world works — anticipating dynamics, causality, and consequences.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Raises 'Cover-up' Question Over Joe Biden Cancer Diagnosis Joe Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive Form' of Prostate Cancer
While the study identifies a significant association, causality has not been definitively established.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
The assumption that a physical, geographic territory can map onto a distinct body of literature implies a false causality, Dimock observes.
—Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for causality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for causality
Noun
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Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it remains undetermined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Paine wrote for common audiences to build a common cause.—
Matthew Redmond
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The timing of autism diagnosis often coincides with the vaccination schedule, but correlation does not mean causation.—
Tim Ryan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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The author notes neuroscientist Antonio Damasio’s work with a patient known as EVR, whose case involved the latter causation: as described in the article, brain surgery changed EVR’s social and emotional intelligence.—
Aaron Shattuck,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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