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
Correlation analysis does not infer causality here.
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Mark Carey, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Analyst Adam Hotchkiss labeled the company a leader in the cloud modernization for the property and causality insurance sector.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
Tregenza’s agile camera connects characters to one another, linking actions in suspenseful chains of causality, and rooting the drama in a sense of locale, both in intimate domestic settings and in mighty, numinous landscapes.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
Trump's misinterpreted or ignored causality behind the Russian war against Ukraine could play into Moscow's hands during peace talks.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Mark Carey, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Analyst Adam Hotchkiss labeled the company a leader in the cloud modernization for the property and causality insurance sector.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
Tregenza’s agile camera connects characters to one another, linking actions in suspenseful chains of causality, and rooting the drama in a sense of locale, both in intimate domestic settings and in mighty, numinous landscapes.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
Trump's misinterpreted or ignored causality behind the Russian war against Ukraine could play into Moscow's hands during peace talks.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for causality
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“Causality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causality. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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