attributed

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Some investors attributed Friday’s stock declines to simple derisking and profit-taking after a powerful run, rather than a direct response to the surge in yields.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Vivid Seats attributed those cancellations to some degree of “mispricing” — that is, ticket prices being too high — or to “some cap on potential for growth for the year.”

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

The 38-year-old forward thought he had scored the 61st hat-trick of his career late on, but the MLS attributed the 89th-minute strike as an own goal by Cincinnati goalkeeper Roman Celentano.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Saeid Golkar, an expert on Iran’s security services at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, attributed the failures of the cells to the Revolutionary Guard’s giving priority to of ideology over skill.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli