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attribute

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




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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

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

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

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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