How to Use causation in a Sentence

causation

noun
  • He claimed that the accident caused his injury, but the court ruled that he did not provide sufficient evidence of causation.
  • Nobody wants to be in the chain of causation, for lack of a better term.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the researchers didn't find causation, just that a link exists between the two.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • But with methane, the chain of causation is much shorter and simpler.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Again, the line of causation is not clear from any of these factors to Wednesday’s crash.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 31 Jan. 2025
  • That happens second, so there just isn’t a way for the causation to work in that direction.
    — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • My mother says these three phrases in quick succession, as though time and causation are the same thing.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • In her fourth year, Paul sat in on a fall seminar that Lewis gave on causation.
    — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But there was a kind of mistake in correlation with causation.
    — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • The city countered that the lawsuit failed to provide evidence to their claims and could not prove causation.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Trump has long sought to blame the pandemic on China, but this chain of causation only goes so far.
    — Analysis James Griffiths, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Correlation isn’t causation, and tech stocks could of course have surged without any options froth.
    — Katherine Greifeld, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • This response only makes sense on surface level and has the causation backward.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Feychting notes the timing doesn’t come close to proving causation.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 20 May 2026
  • While the researchers did report a link between cellphones and health issues, the study doesn’t prove causation.
    — Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2025
  • And, as always, correlation isn't the same thing as causation.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 July 2017
  • This is likely a case of correlation and causation, the report said.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • What economists—and the Fed—really need to know, is the causation.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But the arrow of causation also works in the other direction.
    — John Authers | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • But correlation isn’t causation, and the scientists studying her were the first to say so.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • But correlation isn’t causation, and the scientists studying her were the first to say so.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2026
  • And that is all while making the assumption that there is causation between the two, not just a correlation.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 18 July 2023
  • Ultimately, lawyers will have to prove causation, which hasn't yet been established.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the ruling, the court held that the chain of causation asserted by the plaintiffs was too speculative.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • There has also been a causation study, which showed that ultraprocessed food was the cause of a negative health outcome.
    — Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In Hearn’s mind, that’s the only thing that connects the two, and correlation doesn’t quite mean causation.
    — Dallas News, 16 July 2022
  • Liston called the paper a correlation study and not a causation study, since it’s not known for sure what condition caused the deaths.
    — cleveland, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Tea’s antioxidants and catechins may help protect bone, but the study can’t prove causation.
    — Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 30 Dec. 2025
  • While the study cannot yet prove direct causation, the scale and consistency of the results leave researchers concerned.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And no, correlation does not always equal causation.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2026

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