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It depends what the situation is. If an object is falling, the weight of the object, which is determined by the object's mass and the gravity, is the force causing it to accelerate. If you're talking about a box being pushed, you could have a person pushing it, which causes it to accelerate, but you also must take into account the force of friction combatting the applied force.

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Any 'type' of force can do it, as long as the group
of all the forces on the object is not balanced.

I believe you're fishing for the answer "an unbalanced force", which is a meaningless
phrase. A force is not balanced or unbalanced. A group of two or more forces is.
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