causes

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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

Broadcom’s lukewarm revenue guidance causes a slump in the stock.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 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

Among them is the disposition effect, a behavioral investing phenomenon that causes people to sell their winners too early and hold on to losers for too long.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Just as multiplying by zero causes the number line to collapse into a point, the vanishing point has caused most of the universe to sit in a tiny dot.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife