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
Either way, prosecutors will argue the ultimate cause was Chauvin’s actions.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2020
Still, for all such proximate causes one must raise the question of ultimate cause: why did these proximate factors themselves arise in Europe, rather than in China or the Fertile Crescent?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
