attribute
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“I attribute it to Ukraine’s midrange strike campaign—that’s a critical capability that they didn’t have in 2025,” said George Barros, an analyst at ISW.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 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
“From our pets to our cars, we infer and attribute emotions, intentions, and minds to non-human entities,” Suleyman wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Economists attribute to immigrants the bulk of U.S. population growth from 1990 to 2015.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Here lies the problem: The great master known as Johannes Vermeer painted, in truth, only twenty-six of the thirty five paintings we now attribute to him.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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"Liam has got some great attributes," said North.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Lenat’s team was wary of the pitfalls of vesting their machine with human attributes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Salon’s source in the community attributes this to a nostalgia among former Persian oligarchs residing in Beverly Hills, which is known colloquially as Tehrangeles.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Procter & Gamble attributes its acquisition of Thorne as a reason for its guidance boost.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Big-men achieve that status by their own attributes; the position is not inherited.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Much of that swing has been attributed to the Iran war and the related surge in gas prices and other costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
They attributed that change him being given testosterone, which he had been receiving before he was arrested.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Holland attributed the improbable victory to a recent series of fiction books based in ancient England and, of course, the impeccable taste of his listeners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
More than 60% of that increase could be attributed to the growing number of people worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
“We have already strengthened our posture along the eastern flank and will continue to monitor the security environment, adjusting our deterrence and defense posture as needed,” Rutte wrote on X, without attributing blame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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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