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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Recent Examples of owing to
Musk gave the two executives a test drive in an early Roadster, but owing to a bug in the car’s system, the vehicle wouldn’t drive above 10 miles per hour.
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Rachel Ventresca,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
That makes fighting commercial bribery harder, owing to limited law enforcement cooperation between those countries and the US, said Henry Pontell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
The closures come during peak tourist season in Paris and are in part owing to the visiting throngs.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
24 June 2026
Looking around at remaining teams, the Utah Mammoth likely now stand as the ideal trade partner from the Red Wings’ perspective, owing to their deep stable of top prospects.
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Max Bultman,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
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Rachel Ventresca,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
That makes fighting commercial bribery harder, owing to limited law enforcement cooperation between those countries and the US, said Henry Pontell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
The closures come during peak tourist season in Paris and are in part owing to the visiting throngs.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
24 June 2026
Looking around at remaining teams, the Utah Mammoth likely now stand as the ideal trade partner from the Red Wings’ perspective, owing to their deep stable of top prospects.
—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for owing to
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Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and backup Daniil Tarasov will both be free agents in a matter of days, leaving Florida with a crucial hole — or net – to fill.
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While Blutinger was speaking, history professor Jonathan Roth attempted to take video of the protesters in the hallway and got into a physical altercation with a female student who tried to block him from doing so.
Preposition
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That's because of superfecundation, which means that one female cat can become pregnant by multiple male cats at the same time.
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Amid the inextricable trauma of losing her 18-year-old child, the mother had feared that traditional funeral customs might be handled differently because of the manner in which her daughter died.
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/owing%20to. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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