occasioned

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Mr. Trueman contends that the loss of belief in man’s sacredness, depending as it did on a belief in God, occasioned the descent into confusion we constantly regret, without knowing quite why.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Caesar, Hegel writes, was driven by “an unconscious impulse that occasioned the accomplishment of that for which the time was ripe.”

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

And Carthage’s defeat in the Third Punic War in 146 B.C. occasioned 600 years of Roman supremacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Bob’s Big Boy is now California Pita, whose grand opening in 2007 occasioned a commendation from then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

She went for two hundred and eighteen dollars in a hasty exchange, a drop in price occasioned by the realities of the local market.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead