brings about

verb

present tense third-person singular of bring about
as in causes
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) I promise: making one mistake will not bring about the apocalypse

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Recent Examples of brings about What’s more, Sorrell notes that carbs are also the only macronutrient that contain fiber (a large russet brings about four grams if eaten skin-on). — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026 Poetry is a form that relies on—or brings about—the failure of language. — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 Mercury’s copresence with Venus brings about a sort of rendezvous with deja vu—a resurfacing of old conversations, songs, love letters, and mood boards from a different time. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026 If the thought of reheating steak brings about mental images of tough, rubbery meat – don’t despair. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026 El Niño is a natural warming of Pacific Ocean sea water that brings about weather extremes around the world. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026 Blending horror with comedy, the Apple TV show takes place in a fictitious New England island town afflicted by a centuries-old curse that brings about supernatural evils. — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026 The organization’s blood supply had fallen by several thousand units in just one week, leading many to worry about the summer season, which typically brings about an increase in trauma injuries, according to the press release. — Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026 For some, the World Cup brings about memories of touching moments with family and friends. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brings about
  1. causes
  2. brings
  3. creates
  4. generates
  5. prompts
  6. does
Verb
  • Yet in September, Bangladesh reported a daily average of 1,198 new cases of measles, which causes a high fever, cough and telltale rash.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The organization’s focus areas are education, jobs and livelihood, and health—causes she’s cared about deeply since childhood.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of causes
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  • Different Monsters Require Different Minds That brings us to today.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For property owners who poured their life savings into Camelot, the arrival of heavy machinery brings mounting anger over how local authorities handled the complex's long, troubled decline.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of brings
Verb
  • To see how this spread creates randomness throughout the world, consider an ordinary coin-flip experiment again.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Republican president signed an executive order that creates a new women’s health division at the National Institutes of Health and a White House task force to focus on the issue.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of creates
Verb
  • This process, which generates perfectly crystalline silicon ingots to be sliced like fragile metallic salamis into thin wafers, is entrusted largely to one firm in Taiwan and two in Japan.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Boasting about 24 flagships across countries, Ecoalf generates about 30 percent of its revenues from retail and 24 percent from e-commerce.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of generates
Verb
  • The episode opens with Riley sitting at his work desk, and something prompts him to look for Ray Biller.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Continue reading … QUARANTINE WATCH — Mystery death at Russian plague lab prompts US precautions as questions swirl.
    — , FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of prompts
Verb
  • Not surprisingly, the legislation does nothing to curb the growth of compensation and other benefits for college presidents, athletics directors, coaches and staff who continue to be in charge of the athletes under their control.
    — Bruce Svare, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • These days, the interjection does a lot of work online as an all-purpose signifier of derogation.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
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