attribute
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MarketWatch will not attribute your comments to you by name without your permission.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Experts attribute the extremely warm ocean temperatures that fueled Rachel, which peaked as a Category 3 hurricane, in part to El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
"There's no single attribute or a single metric that we particularly go after," Cave explained.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Because the Z boson itself barely interacts with the plasma, the researchers could attribute these wake patterns directly to individual quarks traveling through the material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Societies attribute masculinity to different genres of music, instruments, and what musicians should look like when performing.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Procter & Gamble attributes its acquisition of Thorne as a reason for its guidance boost.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Brand positioning and pricing strategies will also face greater scrutiny as AI agents reduce products to a handful of key attributes in side-by-side comparison tables.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
She attributes some of the gender divide to the fact that the two demographics are often presented with different informational realities, though it is difficult to quantify.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
It attributes the beat to significantly lower exploration expenditure and a larger reversal of share-based payments, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“We just did Oreos,” said Heylmun, “and we broke them into ninety attributes of appearance, flavor, and texture.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Immunotherapies such as Keytruda and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo have substantially reduced the number of deaths attributed to melanoma since being approved over a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The company attributed the increase in part to pricing actions, as well as continued demand across key end markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja attributed the move to “managing our capital deployment efficiently,” on the company’s earnings call.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
She attributed this to having "largely resulted from precautionary measures taken to protect systems while security updates and mitigations are applied".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
His views are commonly attributed to Linnaeus, who examined his dissertation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
Optical stocks were hit especially hard in Monday’s action, with analysts attributing the moves in part to cautious commentary about AI spending.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
In January, he took out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal attributing his past behaviour to his bipolar disorder.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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