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ascribe

[uh-skrahyb] / əˈskraɪb /


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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

Nowadays, the group can hardly exert control of areas within Yemen itself, and again, the intelligence community in 2025 and 2026 can only ascribe “intent” to the group and not actual attacks.

From Slate Apr. 21, 2026

“We ascribe to them too much competence. I do not consider what’s happening now to be the result of great strategic thinking.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 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

Today, MS ascribes no value to Resolution in its base case for either company, Anand says.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

Papic ascribes a 60% probability to the conflict ending in approximately two weeks.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 8, 2024

What is important is that he is able to convince fanatic followers of the sacred mission he ascribes to himself as well as to them.

From Salon Dec. 7, 2023

He ascribes it to the abnormal wickedness of the antediluvians.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

It’s worth noting that Apple recently raised prices on many products, but the company ascribed those increases to higher costs for memory chips, driven up by intense demand from AI firms.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

With this in mind, we ascribed a third of agility to Glassdoor’s rating of a company’s culture and values.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

When StepStone adds the investment to its own portfolio, however, it typically values it at the higher price ascribed to the investment by the fund where it came from.

From Barron's May 20, 2026

Hamilton has ascribed his improvement in form after a difficult 2025 to "a change of attitude".

From BBC Mar. 26, 2026

Their vote therefore must be ascribed to ignorance of what passed during their long sleep.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“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

A recent survey of 300 people found that 67% of responders believes AI is conscious, interacting with it politely and ascribing human-like traits.

From Salon May 17, 2025

“I absolutely do not agree with that statement. In Bangladesh, our high commissioners talk to all political parties without ascribing any labels,” says Ms Sikri.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2024

I tell you what, Mose, this sure is somebody’s kind of truth, but I wouldn’t be ascribing it to God.”

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe




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