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attribute

[uh-trib-yoot, a-truh-byoot] / əˈtrɪb jut, ˈæ trəˌbjut /




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The researchers attribute the supplement's promising effects to its combination of two ingredients: resistant starch and psyllium husk.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

I can attribute that to being one of 13, being on stage with stand-up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Economists attribute to immigrants the bulk of U.S. population growth from 1990 to 2015.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

It was a glorious tie, one that could be spotted clear across a room, which I figured was an important attribute.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

“The FBI attributes this activity to the North Korean hacking group commonly referred to in the private sector as Sapphire Sleet, UNC1069, Stardust Chollima, APT38, and BlueNoroff,” the FBI said in a written statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Skipworth attributes the business woes to the fact that 55% of its restaurants in the U.S. are in areas that overindex to consumers who are under the most economic stress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

She attributes this expected progression to a phenomenon called the "birth cohort effect."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Gabriella Booth, 29, was introduced to the series in 2013, but attributes ACOTAR's explosion in popularity to both the pandemic and "BookTok" - a TikTok community dedicated to sharing what people are reading and writing.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Both these words seem to be real-estate agent code for a house that doesn’t have many specific attributes worth describing.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Special Agent in Charge of Cyber & Counterintelligence at FBI Los Angeles, Jeremy Robertson, details the #FaceStealer social engineering scheme attributed to North Korean hackers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Pei-ju Lee, an analyst at investment advisor Bradley, Foster&Sargent, attributed the sector’s declines to reports suggesting Nvidia’s “circular investment” strategies could come under review with the eventual appointment of a new CEO.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Huang’s tale of heroism and hubris left Lloyd Blankfein, who once ran Goldman Sachs, to invoke a famous line attributed to French leader Charles de Gaulle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The disruption, which Microsoft attributed to "elevated load" on its infrastructure, dragged on for much of the US workday and also affected other company products such as Teams and the AI assistant Copilot.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

She, too, was thinner, something I always attributed to stress.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Tamburini said, attributing his survival to unusually warm ocean waters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 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

You blame others for taking you out of context and attributing to you bad intent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

She must be attributing the change in her vision to some maneuver of the tracker’s rather than a betrayal by me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer


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