attribute
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According to the report, scientists can now attribute particular extreme, heat, and rainfall events with a high degree of confidence to man-caused climate change, and wildfires, droughts and tropical cyclones with moderate confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"I suppose people attribute the more coercive and economically less helpful policies to Xi personally but associate more positive elements, such as technological advances, to China more broadly."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
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.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
“For we must attribute this happy conclusion,” she added, “in a great measure to his kindness. We are persuaded that he has pledged himself to assist Mr. Wickham with money.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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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
Elliott attributes it to what he terms “traveler’s amnesia.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The Swiss has played in a variety of roles for club and country in the middle of the park, but he has the attributes to potentially excel as a box-to-box midfielder.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Big-men achieve that status by their own attributes; the position is not inherited.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Leah Saint Marie, a filmmaker and former projectionist at the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, attributed the staffing struggle to the experience and knowledge divide between hobbyists and experts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
And, indeed, there may be something wrong with the apparatus in schizophrenics; they have, it is said, an unfamiliar odor, recently attributed to trans-3- methylhexanoic acid, in their sweat.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Mapping out the obscure corners of the ecosystem and attributing specific wallets to Iran’s government or anyone else can be difficult and has created a market for firms like TRM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The company has outlined a near-term total addressable market of $5.7 trillion, attributing just $370 billion to space-enabled solutions.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The Trust is cautious about attributing the changes directly to climate change at a single site.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Chopra responded, “Nothing human is foreign to me,” attributing that to a “Roman poet whose name I forget.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
However, a veterinarian in Bainbridge, Georgia, Dr. Otis L. Poitevint, who was called upon to treat many of the affected animals, has summarized his reasons for attributing the deaths to the insecticide as follows.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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