Example Sentences

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Both companies said the pickup in capex was owing to overwhelming demand.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

Investor euphoria was owing partly to relief, as the Milei reforms of the last two years appear to be safe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

You mentioned your productivity was owing to your daily routine, which typically includes playing golf.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2024

And it was owing principally to this crackdown on interference that goal scoring went up by twenty per cent in the season after the N.H.L. lockout.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2015

This was owing largely to the eleven years she had spent caring for her invalid mother, which had left her with some proficiency as a nurse and an inability to face strong sunlight without blinking.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson