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It’s a reasonable price to avoid the immense damage to its reputation — and consequently its bottom line — that an extended, detailed account of its knowing lies would have occasioned.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

In Mali, such issues have occasioned much debate in the recent past.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

But these separate efforts at reform have occasioned a coordinated pushback from the bail industry, which fears its profits are in jeopardy.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2017

“These courses of action cannot be legitimized by an appeal to the sanitary, social, or economic motives that may have occasioned the choice of cremation.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2016

Their delight was too great to note that their announcement may have occasioned any uneasiness in me, though I stammered, and imagine I blushed.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson