ultimate cause
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“She had survived seven years under the Nazi regime,” Mr. Smith writes, “but the experience had destroyed her health and must be considered the ultimate cause of her death.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
Something must be the ultimate cause of motion.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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