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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But there was a kind of mistake in correlation with causation.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
• There has also been a causation study, which showed that ultraprocessed food was the cause of a negative health outcome.
  — Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Information in these reports has not been verified and the existence of a report is not proof of causation, the FDA says.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 10 July 2023
• Information in these reports has not been verified and the existence of a report is not proof of causation, the FDA warned.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 July 2023
• Correlation isn’t causation, and tech stocks could of course have surged without any options froth.
  — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• But investors should be closely watching the causation.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• One is about the assumed causation of the US's experience with a decline in support for democracy.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2022
• For all but the most tangible outcomes, establishing causation might be too much to ask.
  — Eric Gilbertsen, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• But the problem is, once again, correlation doesn't mean causation.
  — Adam Blue, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• The motion raised the findings of the report and requested jury instructions on causation.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Primus said authorities must show gross negligence by the parents and causation, or the act of causing something.
  — Fox News, 5 Dec. 2021
• But correlation with disease does not always equal causation of disease, and research shows that weight loss isn’t the effective cure-all it’s been made out to be.
  — Adele Jackson-Gibson, Good Housekeeping, 23 Feb. 2021
• The judge found that the allegations of harm and causation contained in the affidavit of merit were insufficient.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• The direction of causation here may be difficult to resolve.
  — Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2020
• The debate is hard to resolve because causation clearly runs in both directions.
  — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• The trials did not conclude that these concerns were real — the trial investigators felt the signals were due to chance, not causation.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 10 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024