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Recent Examples of causation What economists—and the Fed—really need to know, is the causation. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 Nobody wants to be in the chain of causation, for lack of a better term. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025 That wide gap in literature is precisely what da Silva Frost and Eastwick sought to fill, designing an experiment that extended beyond correlation and into causation. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Kikani adds that the study’s short-term follow-up time may not fully capture the long-term effects of cancer development and that the observational study design can only point toward association rather than causation. Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for causation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for causation
cause
Noun
  • Investigators will be relying heavily on the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner to identify the victim and to figure out the cause of death, police sources said.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Don Lima, always a champion for civic causes, headed up the organization, which became the Italian American Heritage Foundation the following June.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Causation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causation. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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