# due to

Pronunciation: US say "DOO too" /ˈdu tu/; UK say "DYOO too" /ˈdjuː tuː/

## Preposition

1. Caused by or resulting from a particular thing or event; because of.
   - Simple: Happening because of something else, or caused by a particular thing.
   - _Sales dropped sharply due to the sudden rise in fuel prices._
   - _Due to a scheduling conflict, the meeting was moved to Friday afternoon._
2. Used to credit a mathematical result, theorem, or proof to the person who first produced it.
   - Simple: Used in math to say who first found or proved a result.
   - _The elegant proof due to Euclid still appears in modern geometry textbooks._
   - _Students learned the convergence test due to Cauchy in their analysis course._

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