cause and effect

Example Sentences

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“The Beauty” is baffling at first, and baffling later—the whole cause-and-effect angle regarding the virus/treatment is almost impossible to explain, which means it’s overly obscure and thus mishandled.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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

Because this was an observational study, the authors emphasize that it cannot establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship.

From Science Daily

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

Clear cause-and-effect situations like this are nearly impossible to recreate in controlled experiments, giving researchers a rare natural experiment.

From Science Daily