causal chain
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandchain
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causal
adjective
uk/ˈkɔː.zəl/us/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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chain
noun
uk/tʃeɪn/us/tʃeɪn/
a series of things of the same type connected in a line, or a series of people standing in ...
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(Definition ofcausalandchainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcausal chain
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Note that if either of these perspectives is taken, thecausalchainhas effectively been shortened and has acquired new beginning and end points.
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On the other hand, an overheating scene is identical to a heating scene as to thecausalchain.
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When we attribute that tendency to the ice, we have the result of the completedcausalchainin mind.
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When they do so, thecausalchainleading to a group's being worsened is longer than thecausalchainleading to another group's being benefited.
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Can viewers and voters see acausalchainthat links real-world outcomes with policy decisions?
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Most of them stop one link in thecausalchainbefore arriving at longevity.
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Our convictions and aspirations are part of thecausalchainleading up to the moral action.
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Thecausalchainproposed here goes directly from coverage to policy, but it does so because of the potential impact public opinion could have.
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In the three-levelcausalchainabove, the transition from the unconscious mental level to the conscious mental level is represented as a one-step process.
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It is important, however, to emphasize that this does not imply acausalchainfrom coverage to opinion to aid allocations.
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The syntagmatic strand is understood as thecausalchainof events, the ongoing, developing 'story' of the soap.
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In tracing out thiscausalchainwe demonstrate how, over time, irrigation development has generated beneficial spillovers in adjacent upland communities and forests.
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My writing this paper might, for instance, through an extremely complexcausalchain, result in the end of the world.
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One can almost always ask for a cause one step further back in acausalchain.
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Failing to include measures of these nontargeted constructs would not permit an assessment of this plausiblecausalchain.
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One disorder might affect another directly or indirectly and successively via acausalchainof mediators.
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Or does the latter occur as the endpoint in acausalchainmediated by my own psychological states, whereas the former doesn't?
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This study cannot with certainty disentangle thecausalchainof events that might have led to the development of psychosis.
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