ultimate cause
Example Sentences
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Resuming the studies could pose challenges, and will likely depend on what doctors determine was the ultimate cause of the patient’s death.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Sure, it was the weapon of choice, but it wasn't the ultimate cause of death.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2020
But if we are to look at these deaths as the Pima County pathologists do, as a kind of slow-motion epidemic, we must label the desert a proximate, not an ultimate, cause.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2020
That spurt of new construction, builders and the city agree, is the ultimate cause of the permitting backlog.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
For our purposes, however, the ultimate cause of the condition is less important than its systemic manifestation, which was a congenital inability to separate his thoughts from his feelings about them.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
