as in with
as the result of
owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June
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Areas where seismic events have occurred will prove out of reach to investigators owing to the violence that erupts again.
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
But there were also traumas owing to physical violence, poverty, and neglect, and intergenerational traumas related to their grandparents’ immigration from Korea to the United States.
—Emily McDermott, ARTnews.com, 11 Mar. 2025
This may have been owing to the influence of her brother, now not only a celebrated writer but also a celebrated patriot.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Analysts at Bank of America’s wrote in a report on Monday that Tesla’s new vehicle sales plummeted about 50% in Europe in January from a year earlier, partly owing to growing distaste for the brand.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
But there were also traumas owing to physical violence, poverty, and neglect, and intergenerational traumas related to their grandparents’ immigration from Korea to the United States.
—Emily McDermott, ARTnews.com, 11 Mar. 2025
This may have been owing to the influence of her brother, now not only a celebrated writer but also a celebrated patriot.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Analysts at Bank of America’s wrote in a report on Monday that Tesla’s new vehicle sales plummeted about 50% in Europe in January from a year earlier, partly owing to growing distaste for the brand.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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