How to Use cause and effect in a Sentence

cause and effect

noun

• Rauber cautions that the study could not parse cause and effect.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 24 June 2024
• But Leigh has a far less basic sense of cause and effect.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
• As a cause and effect, everyone around me has changed as well.
  — Kyle Buchanan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• Like most research on the oral-systemic link, these studies can't prove cause and effect.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• These delightful toys teach cause and effect, hone fine and gross motor skills, and more.
  — Christine Luff, Parents, 22 Apr. 2024
• The jingly bell at the center adds some sensory fun to help littles learn about cause and effect.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 11 July 2024
• But a walk down Memory Lane is a good reminder that cause and effect didn’t always work this way.
  — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• The odds that this chain of causes and effects might actually come to pass — and affect the specific physicians in the case — boggles the mind.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• Curiosity, cause and effect, and gaming have always been in our DNA as a species, and that’s across all cultures.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• On a basic level of cause and effect, some of these incidents would not have happened without the bombing of Gaza.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• And, in a complicated chain of cause and effect, the fact that both homeowners and renters are staying put has worked to keep inflation high.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Tackling climate change causes and effects Palm’s is one of two bills that have been the purview of the Environment Committee.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024
• OpenAI says there are a few tweaks to be worked out, including not understanding cause and effect.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
• There may be no way today to prove cause and effect with your particular vaccine injury.
  — Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire, STAT, 11 June 2024
• Just fill it with water and then set it on a flat surface, like a high chair tray or the floor, and watch your baby pat it and move the little fish inside (which also introduces them to cause and effect).
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 8 June 2024
• So there’s a difference between trying to talk about cause and effect and excusing an action.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• But the evidence is observational and doesn't prove cause and effect.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 23 Apr. 2024
• That, in turn, frees them up to amass more money, until cause and effect become impossible to distinguish.
  — George Packer, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
• Most of the questions, however, have centered on the shortcomings in Washington’s response to the crisis, rather than the causes and effects of the Benghazi attack itself.
  — Ethan Chorin, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2016
• But figuring out the chain of causes and effects in these narrow slices of Earth’s vast, broken geological record is like trying to solve a murder.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
• Natural selection shaped the human brain to navigate the world by inferring cause and effect.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
• Both toys are great for helping kids work on motor skills, further their cognitive development, and get familiar with colors, shapes, and cause and effect.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 11 July 2024
• One of the symptoms of these disorders — which affect as many as 5% of American children — is a limited ability to understand cause and effect.
  — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
• The framework also has implications for understanding the tricky question of cause and effect in complex and emergent systems.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2024
• Parents and caregivers should look for toys that allow babies to explore cause and effect, stimulate the senses, and support fine and gross motor development.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
• The study design could not demonstrate cause and effect, however, but only correlation.
  — Blake Murdoch, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024
• Results, the paper acknowledges, should be taken as correlations rather than proven cause and effect because the trial was not randomized.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• There isn’t an easy cause and effect: if someone makes a birthday card joking about getting wasted for your birthday, that could be seen as irresponsible of the manufacturers.
  — Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• Understanding cause and effect would make existing AI systems smarter and more efficient.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2019
• Toys that make noise when interacted with—whether crinkle, chime, or squeak—offer auditory stimulation and teach cause and effect.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024