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Six example sentences with contributing, each labelled with its topic.
Investigators named the dry winter as a contributing factor in the wildfire, along with untrimmed branches touching the power lines.
Environment
Fatigue was one contributing cause of the medication errors, though the ward's confusing labels explained far more of them.
Medicine
Cheap credit was a contributing factor in the housing boom, and lax appraisal standards pushed prices higher still.
Economics
Poor free-throw shooting was a contributing factor in the loss, though twenty turnovers did far more damage.
Basketball
The report named an expired certificate as a contributing cause of the outage, alongside a monitor nobody had checked.
Technology
Lack of sleep is a contributing factor in poor decisions, since tired people weigh immediate rewards far too heavily.
Psychology
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