contributory
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“The intent required for contributory liability can be shown only if the party induced the infringement or the provided service is tailored to that infringement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
The deaths of two unnamed children, a three-year-old and a 10-year-old boy who had a cryptococcus fungal infection listed as contributory factor, are also the subject of the police prosecution report.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
Jim Williams shared that Adam Williams’ official cause of death was atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with obesity as a contributory factor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
Against the backdrop of recent kidnappings, governors and traditional chiefs from 19 northern states recently dubbed illegal mining a "major contributory factor to the security crises".
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
Smoking is without doubt a significant contributory cause of cancer, lung and heart disease, but there are confounding factors having to do with life-style and environment which partially obscured this fact for some years.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
But no man can be truly blessed who has to find many contributories to make up his blessedness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
The sentence, if true, was too severe; the offspring who were innocent contributories to the crime deserved pity rather than punishment; the judgment passed on the real offenders was also unduly harsh.
From America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat by Tingfang Wu
Such power is not neutralized by our infirmities; it asserts itself under their limiting conditions and makes them its contributories.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
Tumult and commotion are almost as necessary contributories to the success of the stratagem as is the cable.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
He may be assisted, like a trustee in bankruptcy, by a committee of inspection, composed of creditors and contributories.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
