Cause and Guide

Cause

Cause verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Guide and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Guide" instead the word "Cause" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Guide verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.

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Cause and guide are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead the word "Guide" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

old	old cause	old guide
good	good cause	good guide
original	original cause	original guide
actual	actual cause	actual guide
Other adjectives: entire, real, big, great, serious, huge, little, lost, main, moral, new, major, official, biggest.

Others think the apocalypse is inevitable, but if they are the ones to cause it, at least they can mitigate the destruction and guide the rebuilding afterwards.

Source: Restart the World
It uses its omniscience to guide whoever converses with it to their doom (and normally to cause massive chaos in the outside world).

Source: Omniscient Morality License
Older myths tend to depict her as a serene guide to the other world for departed souls who had died from natural cause.

Source: Everybody Hates Hades

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