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

He said it was "not a resignation occasioned by fault or by any admission of liability".

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025

One day I had come to my studies in lower spirits than usual; the ebb was occasioned by a poignantly felt disappointment.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë