Cause and Necessary

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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

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

Necessary noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

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Cause and necessary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Necessary".

Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily

good	good cause	good necessary
common	common cause	common necessary
natural	natural cause	natural necessary
real	real cause	real necessary
Other adjectives: big, huge, bad, key, holy, new, major, heroic, frequent, possible, different.

Small doses are safe, but drinking solely distilled water can cause a lack of necessary electrolytes and/or cause water intoxication, which may be fatal.

Source: Cool, Clear Water
Demons explicitly say that some "good" qualities—like courage, devotion to a goal or cause, et cetera—are actually necessary for great evil.

Source: Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad
You still need to take care that the rotation of the rim doesn't cause you to fall down since it moves faster than you do while hanging and thus need to spam airdashes when necessary.

Source: Video Game / Hard Corps: Uprising

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