Cause and Wind up

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

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

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

Wind up verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.

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Cause and wind up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Wind up".

It doesn't work, but this does eventually cause you to wind up saving everyone in the world, and the galaxy.

Source: Flower from the Mountaintop
Unfortunately, as he discovers from checking out the test rodent Algernon, it'll cause him to burn out and wind up even stupider than before, possibly brain-dead.

Source: My Skull Runneth Over
They think they're the Big Good, but they're completely full of themselves and wind up being the cause of a lot of messes the Lanterns have to clean up.

Source: Mysterious Backer

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