ascription

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“Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate,” Conway and Kochen write, “since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom.”

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2021

Being a Negro writer, he explained to the critic Kenneth Burke, was not a racial ascription but a cultural legacy.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

To some extent, the ascription of malevolent powers to chemicals is an attempt to explain behavior that otherwise seems inexplicable.

From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2014

Now we find ourselves in a society in which the majority of people identify themselves as being middle class, but this ascription owes more to digestion than it does to acculturation, let alone occupation.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2012

If he were right in this ascription, and if he were to judge by this sample, the girls of the Four Hundred were not a very good-looking lot, for all they were so stylishly dressed.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander