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Examples of owing to in a Sentence
She walks with a limp owing to a childhood injury.
owing to the extra snow days this year, we'll have to run an additional two days into June
Recent Examples on the Web
That plan was eventually shelved, in 2021, owing to security concerns.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
Many miners became Socialists, in part owing to the influence of immigrant miners from Southern and Eastern Europe, but also because both political parties in the state were effectively controlled by the coal companies.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
Throughout the book, some lines, like this one, have about them an apparent precision that—owing to the spareness of the pages, not to say of the lines themselves—invites more intense focus.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Then in February, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had to address a question on fair allocation owing to the demand for AI chips during an earnings call.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 2 May 2024
Another possible route is the cows’ feed, owing to the fairly revolting fact that the U.S. allows farmers to feed leftover poultry bedding material — feathers, excrement, spilled seeds — to dairy and beef cattle as a cheap source of additional protein.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
Oliver Stone’s Salvador, from 1986, is the kind of movie Hollywood can’t make anymore, especially owing to the era’s political turmoil.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 Apr. 2024
Subscription revenues were impacted negatively in Q1 compared to Q4, owing to the timing of NFL Sunday Ticket games.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
In the old day Paris taxis were famous the world over for the furious way in which they were driven, but all that is now at thing of the past owing to the tremendous scarcity of petrol, which has all been requisitioned for the Nazi war machine.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1625, in the meaning defined above
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“Owing to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/owing%20to. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
owing to
preposition
: because of
absent owing to illness
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