Example Sentences

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It is worth noting the difficulty in interpreting this result causally — many factors likely differ for families with ACEs that we simply can’t control for, despite our efforts.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

"In addition, it shows that low glucocorticoids are causally implicated in the determination of other risk factors and symptoms that were until now only independently related to PTSD."

From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2023

But my best bet at the moment is that a vegan diet probably doesn't causally affect mental health.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023

By identifying these regions in the genome that are influencing dietary intake, we can plug them into this method and get more information on what diseases certain foods actually causally influence.

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2023

Sometimes correlated quantities are causally related, but other “confounding” factors complicate and obscure the causal relations.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos