causal

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We must confront the causal factors of antisemitism honestly and address antisemitism where it is most common and most virulent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Critics add that the causal link between social media and teen mental-health problems remains unproven.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Using this method, they constructed causal gene regulatory networks for six major brain cell types.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2026

It will be co-ordinated with local probes into whether there was a causal link between the contaminated formula and the deaths of three babies in France.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

There are many confounding factors, however, and whether there’s any causal relation between the two phenomena is unclear, as is its direction, if there is one.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos