How to Use causation in a Sentence

causation

noun

• He claimed that the accident caused his injury, but the court ruled that he did not provide sufficient evidence of causation.
• The league pointed to the nine-month gap between her complaint and the contract expiring as evidence of lack of causation.
  — Mark Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• But the researchers didn't find causation, just that a link exists between the two.
  — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 18 July 2019
• In fact, the direction of causation goes the other way.
  — Niall Ferguson and Xiang Xu, WSJ, 6 May 2018
• The results showed there was a small link between the BMI of the mother and the weight of the baby at birth, but the causation disappeared as the child grew up.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
• But with methane, the chain of causation is much shorter and simpler.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
• That happens second, so there just isn’t a way for the causation to work in that direction.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• The city countered that the lawsuit failed to provide evidence to their claims and could not prove causation.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
• That would land in the realm of causation, which proves a causal relationship between two events.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
• Trump has long sought to blame the pandemic on China, but this chain of causation only goes so far.
  — Analysis James Griffiths, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• With the coronavirus crisis, there isn’t the same causation.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
• And, of course, the big one: Correlation doesn’t equal causation.
  — Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 1 May 2018
• My mother says these three phrases in quick succession, as though time and causation are the same thing.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
• In Hearn’s mind, that’s the only thing that connects the two, and correlation doesn’t quite mean causation.
  — Dallas News, 16 July 2022
• In the ruling, the court held that the chain of causation asserted by the plaintiffs was too speculative.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• Central to all of the charges is the element of causation, or that Chauvin was a substantial causal factor in Floyd's death.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• Through the lens of the bellwether, correlation is causation, and thus the winner of these counties will go on to win the presidency.
  — David Yanofsky, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2020
• Liston called the paper a correlation study and not a causation study, since it’s not known for sure what condition caused the deaths.
  — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
• And that is all while making the assumption that there is causation between the two, not just a correlation.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 July 2023
• But the arrow of causation also works in the other direction.
  — John Authers | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• This is likely a case of correlation and causation, the report said.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2021
• In the case of Abbott, too, no conclusive causation has been proven between the Cronobacter found at the Sturgis plant and infants' illness or death.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 30 July 2022
• Listenbee has to prove causation in three areas, Dunn said.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 5 Feb. 2018
• The evidence isn’t very strong, though There is a big caveat to the research: These studies show correlation, not causation.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
• But there was a kind of mistake in correlation with causation.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
• And, as always, correlation isn't the same thing as causation.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 July 2017
• Also, of course, correlation is not the same as causation.
  — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016
• In addition to preemption and timing, the Patriots and NFL are poised to argue a lack of causation.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• No one would claim this is simple causation—growth results from a complex alchemy of factors.
  — Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• Though the study doesn't prove causation, experts say flexibility is a key metric of health that can have far-reaching effects.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024