Cause and Leading

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

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Leading and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Leading" with "Cause", this verbs are similar.

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

Leading adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Cause and leading are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Leading".

Nearby Words: lead, leader, leadership, leaded

Instead he kills him, both for leading him to betray the cause and for killing Santo.

Source: Film / A Bullet for the General
They/he/it are very bored and lonely, leading to some of its component-drones joining the eponymous battle because it potentially provides the new experience of fighting for a doomed cause.

Source: Hive Mind / Played Straight
Thicker Than Water: Jim's sons override his scruples on leading them into a life of crime on the grounds that saving their mother from the income tax people is a good cause.

Source: Literature / The Stainless Steel Rat

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