owing to

preposition

: because of
absent owing to illness

Examples of owing to in a Sentence

She walks with a limp owing to a childhood injury. owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June
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The event was a transparent attempt to lift Tesla’s stock price, which has suffered recently in large part owing to mounting anti-Musk public sentiment. Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025 In Toronto, another white-hot production hub for Hollywood owing to tax credits and currency savings, Hackman Capital and the MBS Group are moving ahead with plans to develop the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025 Areas where seismic events have occurred will prove out of reach to investigators owing to the violence that erupts again. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025 But there were also traumas owing to physical violence, poverty, and neglect, and intergenerational traumas related to their grandparents’ immigration from Korea to the United States. Emily McDermott, ARTnews.com, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for owing to

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1625, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of owing to was circa 1625

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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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owing to

preposition
: because of
absent owing to illness

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