Cause and Needle

Cause

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

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

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

Needle verb - To attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults.

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Cause and needle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Needle".

Nearby Words: needled, needling, needlework

old	old cause	old needle
particular	particular cause	particular needle
specific	specific cause	specific needle
actual	actual cause	actual needle
Other adjectives: big, huge, little, lost.

cause people

needle people

In Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, a villain sends his victims puzzles that, upon being solved, prick them with a needle, injecting nanobots that cause them to temporarily go insane.

Source: Nanomachines / Western Animation
Interface Screw: Grabbing the green syringe by the needle end will cause you to hallucinate, giving you purple and green double vision and distorting the music.

Source: Video Game / Surgeon Simulator 2013
That needle happens to be Aeolia's end of existence and one of the Seven Needles Lucas has to pull before the Masked Man does first, which could cause the entire world to cease to exist.

Source: Video Game / MOTHER 3

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