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How to use the word causal in a Sentence?

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While other work has also linked cannabis with CAD, there are several potential confounders that may explain this relationship. Our MR analysis suggests this relationship may be directly causal.

Ishan Paranjpe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, an important limitation of these previous studies and the new analysis published today is that the findings are observational and so do not provide evidence of a clear causal link between UPFs and cancer, or the risk of other diseases.

Simon Steenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The causal relationship is clearly not there simply because of a tweet.

Elon Musk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's definitely a causal relationship to this and the stats do not lie, emerging in New York, particularly over the last year, there is a revolving door, a culture of criminality without consequence, some of which I think is undeniably tied to this bail law. And what's shocking about this is that this solution is so obvious. We need to give judges discretion to actually make decisions pending to the individual case, particularly as it pertains to these individuals who keep on committing crimes. It's my belief that we should be listening to law enforcement officials on the ground.

Max Rose

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The number of people being arrested now who have pending cases -- which is what the mayor is referencing -- has in fact increased. Now, the causes of that aren't necessarily clear, the mayor made some reference to bail reform... We also know that cases are going on longer because of the pandemic court closures and those types of things. So there's certainly potentially competing causal factors.

Marie VanNostrand

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's too soon to say if there was a causal connection or not, but what we can say is that this event did happen around the same time as when we think the megafauna disappeared, which is intriguing, there's also a chance that this was actually witnessed by early inhabitants, who had just arrived in The Atacama Desert. It would have been quite a show.

Pete Schultz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Suicide and suicidal thinking are multifactorial, complex experiences and behaviors. There are many theories about the causal factors in suicide attempts and death by suicide, and as yet we still have an incomplete understanding.

Lucien Gonzalez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But this study definitely shifts the weight of evidence toward supporting a causal effect of sleep timing on depression.

Iyas Daghlas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines.

The CDC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This suggests that there’s a causal relationship, but a registry study can’t answer that question, it is possible that those who received PDE5 inhibitors were healthier than those on alprostadil and therefore had a lower risk. To ascertain whether it is the drug that reduces the risk, we would need to randomly assign patients to two groups, one that takes PDE5 and one that doesn’t. The results we have now give us very good reason to embark on such a study.

Martin Holzmann

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We believe that 6PPD-quinone is the primary causal toxicant for these observations of coho salmon mortality in the field, it's exciting to start to understand what is happening because that starts to allow us to manage these problems more effectively.

Ed Kolodziej

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If children do prefer storybooks with causal explanations, adults might seek out more causally rich books to read with children -- which might in turn increase the child's motivation to read together, making it easier to foster early literacy.

Margaret Shavlik

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The current study is a preliminary,' first step' evaluation of a potential relationship between exhaustion and atrial fibrillation, it is purely an observational study -- it can not conclude a causal relationship, or even which direction such a relationship would go.

John Rumsfeld

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I disagree that there's a causal link between Donald Trump being president and something like this happening in New Zealand.

Mick Mulvaney

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If we can determine if there is a potential causal link that is consistent across studies, then we can design interventions to curb media exposure. Even simple educational information to let teachers, parents, and pediatric health professionals know that there could be an increased risk when they talk with their teens about digital media use might be helpful.

Adam Leventhal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The reason we focused our attention on height is precisely because height is a strong predictor of income-- and many social scientists, including economists and anthropologists, believe that this relationship is at least partly causal, so we do think there is a causal relationship between height and voting which operates through income.

Sara Watson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If ejaculation frequency was truly a causal factor for prostate cancer development, we would expect to find the association across all prostate cancer risk categories.

Behfar Ehdaie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're not making a causal relationship in that BMI tests cause eating disorders because these are very, very complex illnesses ... but these tests can be trigger moments, so if someone is vulnerable and in a vulnerable place (and is) being weighed at school or being measured in whatever way ... these are things that can be very triggering for those who are at risk.

Claire Mysko

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Since the public health emergency of international concern was declared (by WHO) back in February, the evidence that there may be a causal relationship has continued to accumulate.

Bruce Aylward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we take all the information we have at the moment, the case for a causal link is quite strong, we should now say that Zika is guilty until proven innocent.

Christopher Dye

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Hypoxia is a plausible linking causal factor, and has been demonstrated in infants residing at high altitude.

David Katz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’re not sure if it’s causal or not, i think (the research) is still in the early stages and the findings are inconclusive.

Frank Bandiera

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When caring for younger patients with heart attack, especially younger women patients, we should look beyond their physical health and pay attention to their psychosocial status as well, although our study demonstrated a strong relationship between higher mental stress and worse recovery, we cannot make causal inferences.

Xiao Xu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Correcting the causal factors in the Jan. 8, 2014 MH mishap is paramount to the CH/MH-53 community.

Kelly Burdick

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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