occasioned

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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

But by excluding the locals, the FBI has now occasioned the public to question who should be doing that investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

It is inevitable, then, that the recent election of a Labour prime minister after more than a decade of Tory rule has occasioned endless comparison with the last time that happened, in 1997.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

We know merely what disasters his mendacity occasioned.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson