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What is "owing to"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
owing to
preposition
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cyanosis and flushing occur during the tonic phase, owing to the sustained contraction of respiratory muscles and cessation of breathing.
▪ The elements may also be transformed from one into another, owing to the fundamental qualities inherent in each.
▪ The new resource represented welcome revenue for a local government feeling a financial pinch owing to a temporary local economic downturn.
▪ The Springboks had to make a major alteration at half-time owing to an injury to Van Straaten.
▪ The stellar sphere, owing to its vast distance from earth, needed no epicycles because its movement appeared regular and unchanging.
▪ Wild fluctuations in brain activity owing to changing environmental conditions would thus put the rest of the body at severe risk.
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owing to

prep. because of, on account of.

Usage examples of "owing to".

In addition the canopy would be distorted when it did open, owing to the unequal lengths of the cords.

And that's where the element of puzzle has come into the matter, owing to the fact that people cannot remember to use their pronouns properly.

The lowest of the clouds must have been floating at an elevation of two thousand yards, a height greater than that of terrestrial vapors, which circumstance was doubtless owing to the extreme density of the air.

Transporters were still offline owing to the effects of the asteroid field’.

Two, owing to circumstances not entirely beyond our control, the load is damned near halved, anyway.

It was not done out of any personal duty he felt owing to Molineux, but because it would form the very vertebrae of his finest published piece of work.

I felt myself precipitated violently into the boiling waves, and if I escaped from a certain and cruel death, it was wholly owing to the determination of the faithful Hans, who, clutching me by the arm, saved me from the yawning abyss.