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It may have been owing to his seeing the Cubs for the second time — an opportunity his previous playoff opponents had had — or fatigue from pitching on three days’ rest.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2016

You have been owing me forty francs since last winter, and said you would pay me yesterday.

From Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Our division in the House of Lords, though sufficiently decisive, was less than it would have been, owing to a variety of accidental circumstances.

From Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

This last may have been owing to the fact that her husband was from Palermo, Sicily.

From Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Barnard, Charles

I conceive it to have been owing to the extraordinary apathy of the people of Bath, who had not provided the slightest accommodation for those who then drank the waters.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)