causing

verb

present participle of cause
as in creating
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) the ice storm caused a massive power outage

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Recent Examples of causing The issue is that AI technology iterates extremely fast, causing related equipment and computing assets to depreciate rapidly, whereas financing debts are long term, creating a maturity mismatch risk. — CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 This month, her mother’s memory-care facility was in an evacuation zone, causing many sleepless nights. — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026 As Flight 814 touched down, the FAA said, the aircraft’s brakes locked and four tires blew, causing a fire. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 One year before his triumph in the 2026 US Open, Clark missed the cut at the same tournament and took his frustrations out on the Oakmont Country Club locker room, causing enough damage that the famous club outside Pittsburgh banned him for life. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 The station played popular music only at night, irking listeners and causing pirate radio stations to proliferate. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026 During one of several scuffles, a 69-year-old bystander fell to the ground near a booth selling Republican merchandise, causing scrapes along her thigh, knee and forearm. — Hannah Ruhoff, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026 The Kia Sportage was stuck on the lip of one end of the bridge, causing the span to become inoperable, the sheriff’s office said. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Investigation underway over why tunnels collapsed The Baboua subprefecture court said in a statement that several underground tunnels in which the miners were working had collapsed, causing a landslide. — Jean Fernand Koena, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for causing
  1. creating
  2. bringing
  3. generating
  4. prompting
  5. producing
  6. spawning
  7. doing
  8. working
Verb
  • Running open-weight AI agents and programs has been gaining steam, creating shortages for desktop Macs.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The rest of the lunar surface may take on an eerie reddish-orange hue, creating an impressive 'almost blood moon'.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of creating
Verb
  • The Moon enters Aries and your 5th House of Creativity, Romance, Play, and Self-Expression, bringing fresh energy to fun, confidence, desire, and artistic risk.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Brooks Lee hit a two-run home run and Kody Clemens had a solo home run, bringing the Twins within 4-3.
    — LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of bringing
Verb
  • When generating text, large language models pick each next word from a set of plausible candidates.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The uneven nature seen by ALMA is likely the result of massive convective movements in the star, hot plasma rising through the star and generating shockwaves that erupt in the star's atmosphere, creating bright and hot regions.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of generating
Verb
  • Traders still holding the contract faced the prospect of taking delivery of physical crude with little storage available, prompting a rush to sell.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • After receiving credits, the customer said a subsequent box also arrived missing meals, prompting them to cancel their subscription.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of prompting
Verb
  • Finite’s founder, Amy Gardner, has producing credits on the likes of And Then Come the Nightjars, La Bohème, Honeytrap, and My House, and worked on the stage productions of Nuclear Children and The Joy of Text.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Those numbers should prompt serious questions about what is happening in classrooms and whether NYC Reads — the city’s sweeping changes to reading instruction — is producing the results students need.
    — Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of producing
Verb
  • Fly’s brand of rap, defined by spare, steely 808 beats and club shoutouts, was wildly popular, spawning nearly 50 mixtape volumes and many more songs since.
    — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026
  • This mystery has tantalized scientists since Charles Darwin mused on it in 1871, spawning no shortage of competing theories about the origins of Earth’s biology around four billion years ago.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of spawning
Verb
  • While doing so has helped millions of individuals access the power of electronics, the shrinking size of transistors is presenting problems at mass manufacturing scales.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of doing
Verb
  • Other areas of concern are the library system's self-check-out kiosks, instances in which minor teenagers handle materials while working or volunteering at a branch, and platforms for loaning electronic materials, Adams said.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Now his focus is on following in his parents’ footsteps working with the Children’s Institute, an organization that supports children and families.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of working

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“Causing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/causing. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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