attribute
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Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier was careful not to attribute blame, but said: "These incidents of course show once again how cyber-attacks can disrupt essential services and affect citizens' daily lives."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
“From our pets to our cars, we infer and attribute emotions, intentions, and minds to non-human entities,” Suleyman wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Economists attribute to immigrants the bulk of U.S. population growth from 1990 to 2015.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
MarketWatch will not attribute your statements to you by name without your permission.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
They would attribute their attitudes to some more obvious, logical cause.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Some retailer loyalty programs offer different discounts to different shoppers based on their purchase history or personal attributes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
He attributes his successes to Lula's social policies, having won a scholarship before going on to graduate as a lawyer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Salon’s source in the community attributes this to a nostalgia among former Persian oligarchs residing in Beverly Hills, which is known colloquially as Tehrangeles.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Gretchen Palek, head of alternative at Blumhouse Television, attributes the show’s success to the careful and sensitive approach to telling these terrifying experiences while highlighting real-life universal anxieties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Below is a list of other ways to think about instruments besides the way the sound is produced, such as its timbre or similar sound; physical attributes, etc.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The league once again has not attributed this to conflict in the region, instead saying the calendar would be recalibrated after the cancellation of the Asian Cup to achieve "a more balanced distribution of fixtures".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Anthropic attributed the third-quarter operating loss to short-term agreements for AI computing power totaling $5 billion as well as $2 billion in noncash charges related to a donation-matching program.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Most of the studies involved people with primary insomnia, meaning their sleep problems were not attributed to another medical condition.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Cybersecurity researchers and the Federal Bureau of Investigation attributed the theft to North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Ernest’s colitis recurred in 1956, a flare-up he attributed largely to stress over the unresolved fate of Chromatic.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Sociologist and political scientist Mayra Goulart, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, also cautions against attributing Lula's comeback solely to social media.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
It also means that many criminal offenses hinge on attributing a wrongful act to the mental state of a human being.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
In psychoanalysis, projection involves attributing feelings, intentions, or qualities to someone else.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The implication being that some companies are attributing layoffs to better tech when it is really just cost-cutting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Otis had praised Pollard in print since his initial condemnation of his ride in the Santa Anita Handicap, even suggesting that he may have been wrong in attributing the loss to the jockey.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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