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If you’re a seasoned people-mover rider, luxury is probably the last word you’d ascribe to the vehicle another mid-century promo video called a “monster on wheels.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rhind said Monday’s stock action “isn’t just an earnings hangover” but a rerating of Microsoft’s progress with AI — meaning that the market is coming to ascribe a higher multiple to the shares.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

They caution against accepting narratives that ascribe human traits to nonhuman things and suggest this incident was merely a case of poor security practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

And while a cursory examination of the film might ascribe that attribute to the public’s taste for poorly made, mid-tier trash, that conclusion would be wholly incorrect.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Eurasia Group is one of the world’s leading geopolitical risk consultancies and it ascribes a two-thirds probability to the pause in hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz holding.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026

As he spoke, Cenni removed his sock to reveal a large portion of his foot missing, an injury he ascribes to the kitchen attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

He ascribes Poland's rapid military build-up to "first of all, the geopolitical situation, but also, the experience of history."

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

Blackwell ascribes her extreme dog love to never having had a childhood pet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

For the worst of Rochefort's colleagues have never been accused of any profligacies and basenesses so bad as those which universal public opinion ascribes to the leading Bonapartes and some of their most influential supporters.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Liberty ascribed NV Energy’s decision to new “market circumstances” in the latter’s home service region.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

"I observed what appeared to be a fairly bright light source which we tentatively ascribed to a possible laser," he said.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

The company ascribed clear numbers to what management called “improving AI adoption,” highlighting three AI-linked business that had achieved over $1 billion in annual recurring revenue as of the end of the first quarter.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

I tilt my head, feeling a calm that cannot be ascribed to the situation.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

"To assign a political meaning to that collaboration means ascribing to me beliefs which I have never expressed and that do not belong to me," Pirlo wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“But tonight, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett made it great again by ascribing to me an incident involving Ilya Shapiro.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Wall Street is essentially ascribing the majority of future GLP-1/obesity market share to a duopoly—Lilly and Novo, notwithstanding competition.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2025

“People are ascribing other things to it,” Miserando, said, when real estate ownership “might be the bigger factor than the angle of how strange it is” to see a company going from Texas to California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

When it came to my choices, I tried to be somewhat unpredictable, to prevent anyone from ascribing any sort of message to what I wore.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama