due to
preposition
: as a result of : because of
due to the complaints of uptight parents … he lost his job
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Synonyms
- because of
- owing to
- through
- with
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Example Sentences
evening classes were cancelled due to heavy snow
Word History
First Known Use
1897, in the meaning defined above
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- prairie button snakeroot
- prairie chicken
- prairie clover
- prairie cock
- prairie coneflower
- prairie cordgrass
- prairie crab
- prairie crab apple
- prairie crocus
- prairie dock
- prairie dog
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- prairie dropseed
- prairie falcon
- prairie false boneset
- prairie fire
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- prairie fox
- prairie gentian
- prairie goose
- prairie gourd
- prairie grain wireworm