causes

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Police say the family contacted them after the woman - identified only as Aminah - was buried, suspicious that she had not died of natural causes.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

It boosts temperatures and precipitation and causes flooding and droughts in much of the world.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

He met his wife, Amy Gertner, took a role in town government and joined community groups supporting food banks and other causes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

For decades, successfully targeting the central mechanism that causes the vast majority of pancreatic cancers was considered impossible.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

For an Aristotelian, there is only one discipline that isolates efficient causes and structures and ignores all others, and that discipline is mechanics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton