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Causing spasms in the media, Mr. Thiel’s lectures reportedly included passing reference to Greta Thunberg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” has become a handbook for the phones-free schools movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2024

Causing me to pause, puff out my chest, look the person who asked the question in the eye, and say, "I'm headed to Jimmy's."

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2023

Another said on the firm's Facebook page: "Causing upset to small children - who don't actually buy their own chocolate, just to prove a point doesn't sit well with me."

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

“At camp, they said a descendant of Neptune had caused the disaster. Neptune is the god of earthquakes. But... but I don’t think great-grandfather actually did it. Causing earthquakes isn’t pur gift.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan