occasioned

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The rise of AI technology, which requires far more energy than ordinary computing, has occasioned data centers’ dramatic numerical growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

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

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

This occasioned the subject discomfort only; and we feared that the vital juices would cease circulation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson