"'cause" meaning in English

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          "text": "I'me forc'd to love thee now,\n'Cause thou provid'st so carefully for my honor",
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          "text": "“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I’m paid for it. […]”",
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          "text": "D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel: \"Something Charlotte said made me think. Maybe celestial beings and humans, Luci maybe they aren't that different.\"\nTom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar: \"What, are we talking in bed? 'Cause we know all know my skills are preternatural. But I suppose you on the other hand...\"",
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