occasioned
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"The absence of our lawyers was occasioned by the state itself, not by ourselves," said Besigye.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Both patterns were probably occasioned by a mixture of motives.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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
No words can tell the agitation of my spirits occasioned by merely the thought of throwing open that portal and beholding the secrets of the gloomy closet within.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
