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
Mr. Swinburne’s late volume on Victor Hugo may be cited in extreme example of the deific ascription rendered by many at the shrine of this idolatry.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
