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Underlying reason
Answer for the clue "Underlying reason ", 5 letters:
cause
Alternative clues for the word cause
Word definitions for cause in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cause of stress ▪ Balancing work and family is the main cause of stress for many people. a likely cause/reason ▪ the likely cause of the accident a source/cause of pollution ▪ The factory was a clear source of pollution. ...
Usage examples of cause.
For millennia, a few select Ildirans had known that the hydrogues might one day return to cause havoc.
The matter caused a good deal of sensation at the time, and the girl Helen was closely questioned by Mr.
These new rulers, who added the Byzantine Empire to Islam, who with Egypt brought Southern and Western Arabia with the Holy Cities also under their authority, and caused all the neighbouring princes, Moslim and Christian alike, to tremble on their thrones, thought it was time to abolish the senseless survival of the Abbasid glory.
The bulging in the vicinity of the parietal region accords remarkably with speculations upon the location of the auditory memory in that region, such as those in the American Naturalist, July, 1888, and the fact that injury of that part of the brain may cause loss of memory of the meaning of words.
In Ottawa, meanwhile, the press reports coming back 324 Exercise of Power from Accra were causing considerable excitement.
Fleming and Hees had no idea of the furor they had caused in Canada, until they landed in Rome the day after the Accra conference.
He urged, and caused the Easter Island resonator to suddenly draw back from the acherontic struggle.
She caused her hounds to gore Actaeon when he dared to dishonour her and I pray God that I, too, will so be able to treat any who might dare to dishonour her.
Since C is active in the map, and D is not very active, the consonant relationship with C causes E to be activated in the map.
The date was Tuesday, February 17, 1778, and, as Adams had no way of knowing, it marked the beginning of what would become a singular odyssey, in which he would journey farther in all, both by sea and land, than any other leader of the American cause.
Court to the American cause was as favorable as it had ever been, and Adams came away from these initial discussions feeling even more sanguine.
For Adams, ever the independent man, it was a role of the kind he most loved--setting forth on his own against the odds in the service of the greatest of causes.
At The Hague, as Adams came to understand, there was little sympathy for the American cause, nor much hope for decisive action.
Adams he said John Quincy was the cause of the trouble, and that he himself was innocent of ever even thinking of Adams in the first place.
He gave Adar a little bow of politeness between not-quite equals with the blandly purposeful expression that caused his opponents to seriously underestimate his intelligence.