attribute

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to carelessness or incompetence.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Plenty of members of bookish communities attribute it to plain old greed, but there’s also something more: influencer brain, a pernicious strain of main-character complex.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Scouts who attended his matches saw a short, squat forward whose most impressive physical attribute was his substantial tush—not unlike another German World Cup hero of the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

For the third year in a row, accidental drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths have dropped in Los Angeles County, a decline officials attribute to ongoing investments in prevention and harm reduction resources countywide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee attributes the success to the state’s competitive tax policy, workforce, and quality of life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

He attributes that to strong consumer demand for “premier-tier” handsets and the possibility of price increases.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Voters, he said, don’t dissect candidates’ identities and attributes the way political professionals do.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Availability has become one of football's most valuable attributes.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

We watched Milton’s adult character forming during those years, taking on the no-nonsense attributes of our future father.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Baptista Research analyst Ishan Majumdar also attributed AMD’s Monday rally to a “broader recovery across semiconductor and AI-related stocks.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Scientists had previously attributed Alzheimer's related sleep loss mainly to damaged neurons or the physical presence of amyloid plaques.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Throughout all three hours of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” — the acclaimed writer-director’s take on the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer — I repeatedly returned to one question.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

They attributed the decline to UC dropping the tests six years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

“The mass exodus of the children of Abnegation leaders cannot be ignored or attributed to coincidence,” he reads.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

In San Francisco, pending sales of luxury homes rose nearly 46% year over year, Redfin said, attributing the increase to the boom in artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

If attributing the outbreak of the Civil War to the publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was an exaggeration, it was a defensible one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

RAD filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, attributing its problems to publicity around the state investigation into the business and other “regulatory matters,” according to petition documents.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Trust is cautious about attributing the changes directly to climate change at a single site.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Even her father noticed, attributing it to the peace of abundance.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende