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 study’s cross-sectional design didn’t allow the researchers to determine the causality of the relationship between sleep and cognitive performance.
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Paul McClure 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2025
Its operating premise—that prosperity breeds inflation—gets the causality exactly wrong.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
If circumstances were otherwise, then perilous paradoxes could emerge: time machines could violate causality, matter could repel rather than attract, and even spacetime itself could be destabilized.
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
While assigning causality to human behavior is about as useful an enterprise as trying to teach a dog how to cook waffles, a couple factors may have been instrumental in circumventing another election-year collapse.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Paul McClure 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2025
Its operating premise—that prosperity breeds inflation—gets the causality exactly wrong.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
If circumstances were otherwise, then perilous paradoxes could emerge: time machines could violate causality, matter could repel rather than attract, and even spacetime itself could be destabilized.
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
While assigning causality to human behavior is about as useful an enterprise as trying to teach a dog how to cook waffles, a couple factors may have been instrumental in circumventing another election-year collapse.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for causality
Noun
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But in 2004, a Dover, Penn., school board member objected to the textbook and pushed to replace it with one that promotes intelligent design — the belief that certain features of life are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than natural selection.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
8 July 2025
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The cause of canker sores remains unclear, the Mayo Clinic says, but researchers suspect a combination of factors contributes to outbreaks.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
8 July 2025
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Nielsen and his colleagues concede that their current work does not establish causation, with at least the possibility existing that bad dreams and poor sleep may lead to equally poor dietary habits, rather than the other way around.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 July 2025
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What makes this approach useful for L&D is its ability to isolate variables and establish causation.—
James Glover,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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