A formal, albeit wordy, way of expressing causation, meaning 'because' or 'since' but with more elaborate phrasing.
A compound construction combining 'due to' (from Old French deu, meaning owed) with 'the fact that.' This verbose formulation became popular in formal writing despite being criticized by style guides as unnecessarily wordy.
This phrase is beloved by those who want to sound formal but despised by writing purists who see it as pompous verbosity. It's a perfect example of how language can become unnecessarily complex when simple words like 'because' would suffice - yet it persists in academic and business writing.
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