How to Use causality in a Sentence

causality

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  • Scientists found no causality between the events.
  • But that method isn't the only way to figure out causality, or at least to start to get a sense of it.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Trump and his allies have viewed the causality the other way around.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But a sense of causality is needed to make a plot more than just a sequence of events.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • To Trump, that is a causality of war, and the war will always be the cops against everyone who is not white.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 28 July 2017
  • Last night’s series finale tried to land the plane, but there were many, many causalities.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • The child understands the passage of time and causality: The blocks must be stacked up before they can be knocked down.
    — Charles Simon, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • But causality is the mother of all clichés, and the clichés don’t fall far from the midlife-reckoning industry.
    — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • The data fit many of the tests for causality, researchers say, but doesn’t prove that cannabis causes psychosis.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2019
  • The child also understands causality and the passage of time since the blocks must be stacked first before they can be knocked down.
    — Charles Simon, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Time is the lord of causality: a cause produces an effect and therefore precedes it.
    — Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • The narration is blunt about the scale of the devastation and the number of causalities, but no images of the dead and wounded are screened.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a false causality, to assume that his hair grease is a direct result of time passing.
    — Anthony Veasna So, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Politicians tend to end up with the vector of causality pointing in the wrong direction.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Pearl, winner of the 2011 Turing Award (as well as the father of Daniel Pearl), has focused his research on causality.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Exploring causality in books, Navsaria said, prompts a child to ask bigger and broader questions: How does the world work?
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
  • At the front end of this long chain of medical and economic causality is the question: How many people will get sick?
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But supporting the presence of the shows does not require comfort with that causality.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • This is an instance of causality at work, not a violation of causal law.
    — Kieran Setiya, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The link between poor diet and mood disorders has been long known, but what has been less clear is the direction of causality.
    — Max Lugavere, CNN, 20 Mar. 2018
  • For instance, causality tells us that an effect should be preceded in time by a cause.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Last month, four rockets landed near the embassy but did not result in any causalities.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2020
  • With brain-imaging studies, the samples are small, and the causality is uncertain.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
  • The humanity comes from how, inside these causality loops, there is no more free will.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2019
  • But their theories don't find causality between cannabis use and hard drug use.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The website of the Dutch registry clearly notes its reports do not imply causality.
    — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 1 July 2021
  • The homework to win the case is to find the causality between Holcim’s activities and its impact on Pari Island.
    — Adi Renaldi, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Whether corollary or causality, this dip has coincided with the rise in importance of search firms in the hiring sphere.
    — Brandon Lilly, Fortune, 19 July 2019
  • In fact, the direction of causality is reversed: Tight labor markets force firms to adopt labor-saving technology.
    — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Pretty much all American good news comes out of an ever-prospering market that drives a chain of causality down to the incredible technology developments that keeps the U.S. the number one richest country in the world.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

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