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As the moon travels around Uranus, gravitational forces repeatedly stretch and squeeze it, potentially placing enough stress on the surface to cause large fractures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
No cause of death was given, but the musician had been candid about his battle with cancer in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
For people of all ages, flu has become a more common cause of death in America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dr Edward Sheffield, who performed an additional post-mortem examination on Kitchen's body in Bristol, said his cause of death had been cardiac failure due to coronary artery atheroma and the physiological effects of turbulence.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Even so, she promised herself that she would not read so much as a paragraph within an hour of her bedtime, for it seemed the kind of tale that was likely to cause bad dreams.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Instead of merely blocking a protein's activity, this method causes the cell to eliminate the protein altogether.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
I have aphantasia, this brain condition that causes me not to be able to imagine anything visually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
We have a decentralized election system that causes a lot of problems.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
But she said problems appear on Google Maps now and again but she did not know what causes them.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Their vocabulary of appearances, predictions and causes is perfectly adequate for the task.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Ahead of agreeing to expand the review to cases dating back to 2015, members of the trust's board offered "sincere" apologies for the failings and harm caused.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It values economic ties with America, and as the world’s largest energy importer, China suffers if the oil shock caused by the conflict drags on, political analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Search engines and AI rely on web scraping and frequency of mentions, and the sheer volume of his fake posts caused AI to mistakenly identify him as an NFL wide receiver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Their analysis showed that the longer melt season was caused mainly by later autumn freeze up, rather than by a large shift toward much earlier spring melting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
My head pounded with the thought of the trouble that would’ve caused.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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“And it’s probably causing the market to be a little bit more discouraged that we have got a grip,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
"But the fear is also felt by employers as well because they're afraid of causing offence or creating a complaint or a grievance," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Garces Perez says the agents twice sideswiped his Toyota Corolla, causing damage, before their unmarked SUVs turned on their lights and sirens.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Mindful of the need to keep the public informed without causing unnecessary alarm, YVO responds cautiously.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
I asked, the anger within me growing as it devoured the hurt and the pain the knowledge was causing.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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