common cause
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommonandcause
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common
adjective
uk/ˈkɒm.ən/us/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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cause
noun
uk/kɔːz/us/kɑːz/
the reason why something, especially something ...
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(Definition ofcommonandcausefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcommon cause
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While commonly encountered in historical narratives, they have not been recognized as a general class of events with acommoncause.
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But one thing that it does is to makecommoncausewith the singing voice in expressing the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
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Over the years, the traffickers madecommoncausewith wealthy landowners by funding rightist paramilitary armies to repel the guerrillas.
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The organism is found in the environment, especially in water bodies and among livestock, and is acommoncauseof human diarrhoea worldwide.
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A very strong argument is that older people find it difficult to mobilise around acommoncause, for more divides than unites them.
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The two groups might makecommoncauseas the united ' inhabitants ' on a matter of parish interest, such as a highway or boundary dispute.
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Further epidemiological and typing investigations are required to determine whether these cases have acommoncause.
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Second, the inferred positive correlation between evasion behaviour and survival suggests that both have acommoncause.
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Tuberculous pericarditis was the mostcommoncauseof pericardial effusions (69.5 %, n=162).
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Non-compliance with regard to the gluten-free diet is the mostcommoncauseof failure to respond to diet.
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I shall also argue that older people have nocommoncause.
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Annular dilatation or abnormalities of leaflets and tension apparatus, notably prolapse, are thecommoncauseof incompetence, and again can be congenital or acquired.
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Disease andcommoncausewere no levellers on the quarantine station.
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The pragmatists stressed the use of the scientific method in all areas of life, and so foundcommoncausewith the positivists.
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Point mutations - the mostcommoncauseof human genetic diseases - can inhibit folding and assembly of the protein in the endoplasmic reticulum.
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The postulation of a singlecommoncausefor these characteristic traits appears to imply that they must always co-occur.
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A likely candidate for such acommoncauseis the ability to perceive pathogens, which is essential for evasion behaviour.
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