natural cause
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandcause
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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cause
noun
uk/kɔːz/us/kɑːz/
the reason why something, especially something ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandcausefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Meteors were neither thenaturalcauseof social and political upheavals here on earth, nor even signs for such occurrences.
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Many cases of absence are due to some simple andnaturalcause, and the man returns to duty in a few days.
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Another cause of concern is the dividing line between what constitutes anaturalcauseof death and what constitutes a non-naturalcause.
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If he died from a heart attack, presumably that would be anaturalcause.
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Is it the case that if an officer dies from what might be called anaturalcausewhile on service at sea, he is not qualified for a pension?
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Drought is anaturalcausethat can lead to poor soil condition, particularly in combination with man-made causes such as poor management of agricultural land, forests and water.
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Therefore, there is anaturalcausefor concern on the part of that body, as there is, indeed, in some of the minority groups of midwives.
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This type of lightning is the most commonnaturalcauseof wildfires.
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The loss of water by seepage is due tonaturalcause/ phenomenon from the manmade reservoirs and other manmade works.
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The actual cause of death was a fatal heart attack (naturalcause).
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Feeling unworthy of such a miracle, he attributed the cure to some unknownnaturalcause.
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Hippocrates believed that with all other illnesses it had anaturalcause.
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Other participants judged the probability of death from anaturalcausewas 58%.
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Maybe classical music just died, on its own, of natural causes.
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The account or rationale of the city must reach out into nature if that city is not to be subject to dissolution from natural causes.
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Such a conclusion was entirely unwarranted; the blubber could have come from a whaling ship or from a whale dead from natural causes.
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The next day it was reported that a preliminary autopsy found nonaturalcauseof death and that toxicology test results would not be available for three weeks.
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The excess mortality in their depressed subjects was almost entirely by natural causes, mainly cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease and pneumonia.
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