cause
noun
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect.
had caused
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past perfectof cause.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Wiltshire Police neighbourhood Insp Lawrence Copeland acknowledged the concerns the recent events had caused to a "small, tight-knit community".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Human persecution had caused the bird's extinction, with the last pair breeding in southern England in 1780.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new account registrations as they dealt with the chaos it had caused, operators of the service said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Last week, revelations came out that it wasn’t just one AI thingamajig that had caused this chaos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The prospect had caused a deep, indefinable dread to settle upon them like a cold mist.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
