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Because the certificate expired, the service rejected new secure connections.
8 Transition Words for Cause and Effect Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
Strong causal transitions distinguish evidence of causation from simple sequence or correlation and fit the grammar of the sentence, preventing words like therefore from making a causal claim stronger than the evidence allows.
- Use because or since to introduce a causal clause when the reason is supported.
- Use therefore, consequently, or as a result for sentence-level consequences.
- Use due to or because of before noun phrases when grammatically appropriate.
- Use contributes to or is associated with when evidence supports a weaker relationship than direct causation.
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The form removed two required fields; as a result, completion time fell in the pilot.
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The vendor shipment arrived late. Consequently, installation moved to Friday.
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Higher temperatures were associated with lower dissolved oxygen, but the observational data alone do not prove direct causation.
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The delay was partly due to incomplete access approvals.
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Repeated practice contributes to fluency by reducing the effort required for familiar steps.
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The road flooded after the storm, but sequence alone does not establish which drainage failure caused the closure.
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Since the dataset excludes weekends, weekly averages must be interpreted carefully.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.