How to Use causal in a Sentence

causal

adjective

• There is a causal link between poverty and crime.
• No causal connection between the events was found.
• Jeans and pumps or jeans and sweaters, that is my causal go-to.
  — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 9 Mar. 2020
• Pair it with a tee or tank and slides for a causal look.
  — Kami Phillips, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2017
• Yet in the public square, a causal link was quickly forged.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• Because the laptop doesn’t have the causal power of a black hole.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
• Jameel, on the other hand, went with a causal gray shirt and black hoodie.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2018
• The agency has found no causal link between the vaccines and these deaths.
  — Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 7 May 2021
• Yet the line has too many zigs and zags and ups and downs to clinch a causal connection.
  — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• But the hoodie and H&M pants weren't her first causal outfit for the occasion.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 1 Oct. 2017
• Teasing out what is causal and what isn’t is difficult to do.
  — Adrian Hernandez, STAT, 14 Oct. 2020
• Plus, they are normally used when the dining is very causal.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• But can silences — absences of sounds — have a causal impact on us?
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Her beau looked equal parts sharp and causal in a navy suit, banded collar shirt, and white sneakers.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2019
• With this causal approach, the what is well established.
  — Ron N Hurst, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• But a causal link between kratom and death has not been established.
  — Mason Marks, STAT, 26 Aug. 2021
• To test whether this might be causal, the researchers did a variation on the initial survey.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 May 2023
• Like many artists, Martens is happy to dispense with the causal logic that regulates the rest of us.
  — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• No study has proved a causal link between cannabis use and violence.
  — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2022
• One strand says that to be real is to make a difference to things in the world, to have causal powers, as philosophers put it.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
• Cooke added the available data did not allow the EMA to draw any causal link with age groups, or whether male or female.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021
• In the same report, Foxman pinned down the causal role of interferons.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 18 Nov. 2022
• None of these would give one pause or prompt a serious search for some kind of causal link to pregnancy loss.
  — Jason Castro, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2020
• And most of those studies suggest that kind of linear causal effect.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 8 June 2024
• Walker decided to keep things causal with a brown jacket and black pants.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 20 Oct. 2022
• There are two causal stories to tell behind these concerns.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 3 July 2017
• The idea that there was some kind of a causal connection here is, at this time, pure speculation.
  — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 9 May 2018
• The research did not investigate the causal role Covid-19 may play in these symptoms.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• There’s times when people want a sit down restaurant and there’s times when people want a causal experience.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2024
• The Aces further maintain that too much time passed between Hamby’s post and allegedly vindictive acts for there to be a causal link.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024