cause and effect

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“We don’t have to stick to the cause-and-effect of which people are going to reappear later in the story,” Gent noted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

To try and shed light on the cause-and-effect relationship, Australian researchers are recruiting 13- to 16-year-olds for a "Connected Minds Study" to assess how the ban affects their wellbeing.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

The observational study did not prove causation, or a direct cause-and-effect relationship, but could only link associations between music and lower dementia risks, Jaffa said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025

"Also, while the association we found raises safety concerns about the widely used supplement, our study cannot prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship. This means more research is needed to test melatonin's safety for the heart."

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

We interpret it as a cause-and-effect sequence: she saw the doctor, and that made her depressed.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker