Cause and Liability

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Liability and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Liability" instead a noun "Cause".

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

Liability noun - A feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success.

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Cause and liability are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Liability".

Nearby Word: liable

physical	physical cause	physical liability
due	due cause	due liability
single	single cause	single liability
obvious	obvious cause	obvious liability
Other adjectives: actual, real, big, serious, huge, potential, major, political, biggest.

Then, as the IRA realizes Miller's stirring up Ryan against them has become a major liability to their cause, they sell out his entire ULA splinter faction for being more trouble than it's worth.

Source: Film / Patriot Games
And it keeps going downhill from there, with her ruining her own life and arguably becoming more of a liability to her cause rather than an asset.

Source: Series / North and South (Trilogy)
And it keeps going downhill from there, with her ruining her own life and arguably becoming more of a liability to her cause rather then an asset.

Source: Black and White Insanity

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