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To ascribe to particular diets and exercise practices that micro-optimize your body is one thing; you may be putting yourself through trials the Jackass guys would never dare, but at least it’s your own body.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

If we are equal in this sense, then it is impossible to defend policies that ascribe lesser worth to some individuals or groups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

“We would ascribe that to data which reinforces the probability the Fed will cut rates in December, but was not so bad that you worry the economy is slowing precipitously,” he said via phone.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025

We ascribe $3 billion of revenue to Amgen’s GLP-1 drug, MariTide, in Phase 3 clinical trials, which we view as potentially differentiated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2025

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

As he spoke, Cenni removed his sock to reveal a large portion of his foot missing, an injury he ascribes to the kitchen attack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

"It bears noting that the court has never taken the position the defence ascribes to it: that former 'President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned,'" Judge Chutkan wrote.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023

The tradition of the earliest document J ascribes the worship of Yahweh to much earlier times, in fact to the dawn of human life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

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

Liberty ascribed NV Energy’s decision to new “market circumstances” in the latter’s home service region.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

"I observed what appeared to be a fairly bright light source which we tentatively ascribed to a possible laser," he said.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Whenever there is any vividness in my narrative it may be ascribed securely to Ovid.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

"To assign a political meaning to that collaboration means ascribing to me beliefs which I have never expressed and that do not belong to me," Pirlo wrote.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“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

But by the 1980s, much chimp behavior was being interpreted in ways that would have been labeled anthropomorphism — ascribing human traits to non-human entities — decades earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

When it came to my choices, I tried to be somewhat unpredictable, to prevent anyone from ascribing any sort of message to what I wore.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama