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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
Recent Examples on the Web
Their sense of smell is phenomenal, owing to large olfactory organs and nostrils.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
The title of the collection is Ephemeral owing to the very transient nature of flowers.
—Blue Carreon, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The range of where these trees can grow is steadily expanding as temperatures rise worldwide, and owing to their wide-spreading root system, breadfruit trees are virtually indestructible.
—Richard Schiffman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
The region, claimed as the homeland of white racial purity—owing to a 1795 tract by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach—had by then been revealed to be less homogenous than reputed.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1625, in the meaning defined above
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
owing to
preposition
: because of
absent owing to illness
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