How to Use causation in a Sentence

causation

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  • He claimed that the accident caused his injury, but the court ruled that he did not provide sufficient evidence of causation.
  • While not proof of causation, the significance of the results appear to be robust enough to show an association.
    — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Two competing and conflicting trends are taking place, although correlation does not mean causation.
    — Liz Guthridge, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • With each step up the distribution ladder, causation is tougher to prove, so the typical investigation ends with the person who delivered the drugs.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
  • But the researchers didn't find causation, just that a link exists between the two.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • In fact, the direction of causation goes the other way.
    — Niall Ferguson and Xiang Xu, WSJ, 6 May 2018
  • The results showed there was a small link between the BMI of the mother and the weight of the baby at birth, but the causation disappeared as the child grew up.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But with methane, the chain of causation is much shorter and simpler.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • That happens second, so there just isn’t a way for the causation to work in that direction.
    — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • The city countered that the lawsuit failed to provide evidence to their claims and could not prove causation.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
  • That would land in the realm of causation, which proves a causal relationship between two events.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
  • Trump has long sought to blame the pandemic on China, but this chain of causation only goes so far.
    — Analysis James Griffiths, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
  • With the coronavirus crisis, there isn’t the same causation.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
  • And, of course, the big one: Correlation doesn’t equal causation.
    — Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 1 May 2018
  • My mother says these three phrases in quick succession, as though time and causation are the same thing.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • In Hearn’s mind, that’s the only thing that connects the two, and correlation doesn’t quite mean causation.
    — Dallas News, 16 July 2022
  • In the ruling, the court held that the chain of causation asserted by the plaintiffs was too speculative.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Central to all of the charges is the element of causation, or that Chauvin was a substantial causal factor in Floyd's death.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Through the lens of the bellwether, correlation is causation, and thus the winner of these counties will go on to win the presidency.
    — David Yanofsky, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The league pointed to the nine-month gap between her complaint and the contract expiring as evidence of lack of causation.
    — Mark Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Liston called the paper a correlation study and not a causation study, since it’s not known for sure what condition caused the deaths.
    — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And that is all while making the assumption that there is causation between the two, not just a correlation.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 July 2023
  • But the arrow of causation also works in the other direction.
    — John Authers | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • This is likely a case of correlation and causation, the report said.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In the case of Abbott, too, no conclusive causation has been proven between the Cronobacter found at the Sturgis plant and infants' illness or death.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 30 July 2022
  • Listenbee has to prove causation in three areas, Dunn said.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The evidence isn’t very strong, though There is a big caveat to the research: These studies show correlation, not causation.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But there was a kind of mistake in correlation with causation.
    — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • And, as always, correlation isn't the same thing as causation.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 July 2017
  • Also, of course, correlation is not the same as causation.
    — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016

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