Cause and Instrument

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Instrument and cause are semantically related in means topic. In some cases you can use "Instrument" instead a noun "Cause".

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

Instrument noun - Something used to achieve an end.

Usage example: he sees scouting as an instrument for building character in young people

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Cause and instrument are semantically related in agent topic. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Instrument".

human	human cause	human instrument
good	good cause	good instrument
worth	worth cause	worth instrument
particular	particular cause	particular instrument
Other adjectives: common, specific, right, original, single, actual, real, big, little, main, new, sole, political, primary, different, medical.

In Microsoft Flight Simulators instrument flight lessons, tracking a VOR too precisely will cause the pilot to fail.

Source: Do Well, but Not Perfect
Everything Is an Instrument: In Chapter 3, Noogie plays the manatee bile sacs like bongos, and playing them wildly can cause the bile to rise up.

Source: Video Game / Tales of Monkey Island
Heroic Sacrifice: Lyra is eventually offered a chance to return to the remembered world, but it would cause all that she'd done as an Unsung to be erased- including saving abused foals, rescuing Scootaloo, giving Dinky her instrument and stopping Discord.

Source: Fanfic / Background Pony

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