attribute
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For the third year in a row, accidental drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths have dropped in Los Angeles County, a decline officials attribute to ongoing investments in prevention and harm reduction resources countywide.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
Blandness was his defining attribute, and how could the public feel supportive of someone they didn’t feel they knew?
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026
Former CSB and Environmental Protection Agency officials, as well as industry safety experts, attribute much of the rise in accidents to years of deferred safety maintenance on aging plants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
But about half also attribute it to a desire for more social interaction.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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