Cause and Set up

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Cause

Cause verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
Usage example: the ice storm caused a massive power outage
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Set up and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set up" instead a verb "Cause".
Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Set up

Set up verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
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Cause and set up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Set up".

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  • Manga / The World God Only Knows Ouroboros: Keima uses this as a metaphor for how effect has become cause and the past has become the future thanks to the Stable Time Loop that set up his misadventures.
    Source: Manga / The World God Only Knows
  • Film / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix This is also a set up for Umbridge's eventual Humiliation Conga - where Fred and George cause them all to fall crashing around her.
    Source: Film / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Lights Off, Somebody Dies: Minoru's murder is set up to look like this, but it was only a ruse to distract from the real cause of death.
    Source: Fan Fic / Despair's Last Resort
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