ascribe to
Example Sentences
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How much meaning can we ascribe to an encore?
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
It was also a "tough" decision because Mr Veevers did not ascribe to a specific custom, and no will had been presented to show that he wished "to exit the world in a certain way".
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025
“Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be explained by reality and facts,” I was told.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2025
The contributions we ascribe to queer people are undoubtedly an undercount, given how many — past and present — have been forced to hide.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024
Goethe, Humboldt, Platen, Winckelmann, Thorwaldsen, Gregorovius and Liszt—to mention only the first at hand—fluttered to Rome and ascribe to it much of their finer productivity.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James