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attribute

[uh-trib-yoot, a-truh-byoot] / əˈtrɪb jut, ˈæ trəˌbjut /




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UBS shares are up this year but have lagged behind their international peers, a factor that investors attribute to the debate over capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

MarketWatch will not attribute your comments to you by name without your permission.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Experts attribute the extremely warm ocean temperatures that fueled Rachel, which peaked as a Category 3 hurricane, in part to El Niño.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"There's no single attribute or a single metric that we particularly go after," Cave explained.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

She had the inhuman attribute of abandoning what she could not get and of waiting for what she could get.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

He attributes his successes to Lula's social policies, having won a scholarship before going on to graduate as a lawyer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Gretchen Palek, head of alternative at Blumhouse Television, attributes the show’s success to the careful and sensitive approach to telling these terrifying experiences while highlighting real-life universal anxieties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Brand positioning and pricing strategies will also face greater scrutiny as AI agents reduce products to a handful of key attributes in side-by-side comparison tables.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I would really like—through music, through art—to re-establish the values of humanity,” he said, citing attributes like mutual respect, love, tolerance and friendship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Yet it is precisely on such occasions that people display their good attributes, whereas they tend to hide and become “invisible” when they are depressed.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The company said it amended guidance partially due to the Lysol disruption, which it attributed to temporary manufacturing capacity constraints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Written on the walls of the heritage centre is the quote attributed to Bevan about creating the NHS in 1948: "We will Tredegarise you."

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja attributed the move to “managing our capital deployment efficiently.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

But, in the spirit of the environmental mantra often attributed to writer Wallace Stegner, she’ll be back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It also means that many criminal offenses hinge on attributing a wrongful act to the mental state of a human being.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

In psychoanalysis, projection involves attributing feelings, intentions, or qualities to someone else.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Optical stocks were hit especially hard in Monday’s action, with analysts attributing the moves in part to cautious commentary about AI spending.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

It also says "Meghan's TV comeback has been canned", attributing the information to a "top royal author".

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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