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His dismay at Tehran’s recent impertinence, however, has occasioned helter-skelter statements.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The 10th anniversary of Miranda’s Tony Award-winning, culturally transformative musical “Hamilton,” with the duel as its centerpiece, has occasioned a new wave of critical hosannas.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

It is inevitable, then, that the recent election of a Labour prime minister after more than a decade of Tory rule has occasioned endless comparison with the last time that happened, in 1997.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

It is his appearance in the new docudrama Framing John DeLorean that has occasioned our conversation today.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2019

Poets were often called in to alter the old or to supply the new, which has occasioned incongruities which probably were not to be found in the original state.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac