Causes and Initiates

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Initiates and causes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Initiates" instead a verb "Causes".

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Causes and initiates are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Causes" instead a verb "Initiates".

Failing at the minigame causes him to lose his ante and initiates a duel with the player who caught him.

Source: Card Sharp
Her moral crusades were usually Played for Laughs, but in The Movie she singlehandedly starts a literal war with Canada, initiates a Canadian holocaust and (indirectly) causes the apocalypse.

Source: Not-So-Harmless Villain
While performing a test on a strange crystalline substance, Gordon accidentally initiates a 'resonance cascade' — an event which causes bizarre, violent creatures to be spontaneously transported from another dimension.

Source: Video Game / Half-Life

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