impute
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That’s not to impute criminality on the part of any of those running to succeed the term-limited Gavin Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
Justice Chandrachud said his comment on seeking divine guidance was because “I am a person of faith” and “to impute motives to judges is not right”.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
We can’t impute the human motives of revenge to creatures whose intelligence and emotions are funneled through an entirely different evolutionary scheme.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Its lawyers contend that “PIF only provides high-level oversight, not the ‘pervasive control’ over day-to-day operations required to impute the subsidiary’s contacts to a foreign owner.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023
I have thought up a horrible dream to impute to Hrothgar.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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“Leave of absence still imputes the financial interests of the firm to him.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
The bureau imputes the characteristics of a small number of households in every census.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
He imputes ill motives to those who disagree with him.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2018
Finally, this worldview imputes motives to the media that just aren’t there.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2016
Righteousness consists in the indwelling of Christ, on account of which God imputes righteousness to us….
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
Miran also questioned parts of the inflation data that rely on imputed prices rather than observed transactions, particularly in services.
From Barron's ● Dec. 15, 2025
However, the prosecution had also angered members of Paty's family by refusing to push for maximum sentences, and by downgrading the qualification of some of the imputed crimes.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
"If a family member endorses a publicly endorses a candidate for office, the code says it could be imputed to the judge," Alfini said.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
"We still got a couple of weeks before the actual meeting, so if anybody imputed some specific basis points of what I was for, that’d be inaccurate," he said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023
Ebright seemed eager to seize the opportunity to exact revenge for the wrongs he had imputed to Pocock.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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“At current trading levels, we estimate the stock is currently imputing lower LNG margins, minimal future growth, and/or additional negative arbitration outcomes beyond what the company has stated,” they wrote.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
A public outcry ended both projects, but Mr. Goldman’s family secured the book rights, added material imputing guilt to Mr. Simpson and had it published.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
“The idea of imputing malice or intent to a machine — my own view is, we are not ready for that,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
“Case law does not support the logic between imputing liability for prior similar incidents based on alleged conduct that occurred in the city surrounding the subject premises,” attorneys for the promoter claimed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
When you attempt benefit to either an individual or a community, abstain from imputing it as an error that they despise or overlook your virtue.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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