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

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

The final vote occasioned great celebration among those who had worked so hard to bring it to fruition.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler