causes

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In a rally, bond investors demand less compensation to act as lenders, which causes yields to drop.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Tourette syndrome is a neurological condition that causes people to make involuntary sounds or movements, known as tics.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

As a result, she says, conventional therapy may ease symptoms for a while without addressing lingering underlying causes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The team focused on two major causes of whole genome duplication: cytokinesis failure and mitotic slippage.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

A natural historian should be able to describe the state of the natural world in terms of causes and effects, Darwin reasoned—just as a physicist might describe the motion of a ball in the air.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee