ascription

Example Sentences

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“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion. We’re moving toward a place where taste is the true arbiter,” she says.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

“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

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

The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah