How to Use multifactorial in a Sentence

multifactorial

adjective
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  • The same was true at Santa Anita when its deaths were viewed as multifactorial.
    — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
  • Health inequities are a multifactorial problem that can manifest in each and every part of a person’s health journey, anywhere, and at any time.
    — Wolfram Nothaft, Scientific American, 17 May 2022
  • Charles says the disparity is multifactorial and could be attributed to a lack of training.
    — Ruth Samuel, Allure, 21 July 2021
  • While heart disease is always multifactorial, Berger says stress is a key health factor that can’t be ignored.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2019
  • But most skin conditions are multifactorial, Daniel Whitby, the chief scientist for the new skincare brand Soho Skin, notes.
    — Kristin Limoges, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2022
  • While women appear to have more robust immune systems, these experts say, the causes are complex and multifactorial, and hormones are only part of the picture.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Also, obesity is a multifactorial disease and more research needs to be done to better understand the root causes of this disease.
    — John Lamattina, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Of course, obesity is a complex, multifactorial health condition, and diet is only one part of it.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Before a shot is even taken, Google’s Night Sight camera does a ton of multifactorial calculations.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • By examining blood samples taken from a hundreds of newborns two or three days after birth, the study concludes that levels of the enzyme could help predict those who are at risk for the mysterious syndrome, thought to be multifactorial.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 15 May 2022
  • Of course, semaglutide is not a magical cure for obesity, which is a complex, multifactorial, chronic disease.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Like many forms of mental illness, the exact cause of erotomania is unclear, but likely multifactorial.
    — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The good news is that understanding obesity as a multifactorial disease opens up new avenues for treatment and prevention.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The reasons why are multifactorial: Black people are subject to health provider biases, lack of access to care, and tend to receive a later diagnosis, often with more aggressive types of breast cancer at advanced stages.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The second is the issue of stability, which itself is multifactorial.
    — Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Vaping impacts on teen health not fully known The adverse and multifactorial effects of vaping on growing and impressionable adolescents are on the rise.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Because the underlying causes are complex and multifactorial, so must be the solutions: there simply is no silver bullet.
    — Daniel Swain, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In the world of genetics, the complex multifactorial nature of causality was highlighted in a recent Quanta article by Veronique Greenwood that described the intertwined effects of genes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2018
  • The reasons for the higher mortality rates in rural areas are likely multifactorial, experts say.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The connection between genes and capacity is complex and multifactorial, as work in human genomics continues to show.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Lupus is often referred to as a multifactorial disease, meaning it’s driven by more than one underlying issue.
    — Markham Heid, TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Certainly, anyone would agree that the gap is a multifactorial phenomenon.
    — Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Those problems were multifactorial and mighty even before Covid-19 exposed them globally.
    — Praduman Jain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In other words, reputations are as nuanced, complex, multifactorial, deep and fragile as human beings are.
    — Davia Temin, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The reasons why that disparity exists for Black women is multifactorial.
    — Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Many mental illnesses present in young adulthood — and their causes are certainly multifactorial.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • At autopsy, researchers have reported the presence of viral protein in the actual heart muscle of deceased patients—so viral involvement is possible, though the true etiology may be multifactorial.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Remember that a disease like Alzheimer’s is multifactorial, made up of different pathological features.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The divergence between World War II unity and today's pandemic division is multifactorial.
    — John Rash, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Aging is a multifactorial process and is heavily influenced by genetics, UV radiation exposure, and stress.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 9 June 2018

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