owing to

as in with
as the result of owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June

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Recent Examples of owing to But that pending legal conclusion has offered no relief to the Benders, owing to their unique intersection between criminal cases. Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025 These days Kelty has far greater resources to work with, owing to GM’s large battery R&D team and the ability to make prototype cells in-house. Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2025 There hasn’t historically been much overlap between American and Chinese social platforms, owing to the longtime technological decoupling between the nations, and for both sides, this sort of interaction is new. Steffi Cao, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025 The city’s 3-K program, for three-year-olds, is not yet universal, owing to Mayor Eric Adams’s budget austerity; his latest budget proposal leaves 3-K with a funding gap of a hundred and twelve million dollars. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for owing to 

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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/owing%20to. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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