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The phrase "alleviate the cause" is not correct in standard English usage
It is typically used in contexts where one aims to reduce or lessen the impact of a problem, but it is more common to alleviate the effects or symptoms rather than the cause itself. Example: "To truly solve the issue, we must first alleviate the effects of the cause before addressing it directly."
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Consequently, it remains a major challenge to alleviate the cause and impact of this condition.
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All peacekeeping experts say the same thing: that peacekeepers are a Band-Aid on a gaping wound, a way to buy time until a political process takes hold and alleviates the causes of the conflict.
After serving briefly as governor-general of the plague-ridden lower Volga region (1879), Loris-Melikov was transferred to the provinces of central Russia, where he recommended to the emperor a modest scheme of administrative and economic reforms, aimed at alleviating the causes of social discontent and, thereby, combating revolutionary terrorism.
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Doctors had put him on the ventilator to alleviate the pain caused by breathing.
State and local officials just restated the usual homilies about "living within our means" – as if doing so would alleviate the problems caused by the economic crisis.
Given the scope of these problems, is there anything any mayor can really do to alleviate the underlying causes that you're talking about?
The bridge was designed, in part, to help alleviate the congestion caused by the current rail line between cities on both sides of the border.
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