attribute
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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
Russian authorities have denied that she died of the plague and attribute her death to “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Analysts attribute the rebounding flow of oil to three key factors:
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Zanesville syndicate looked at all the best natural qualities of the country and decided to attribute them to Odessa whether they were there or not.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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“I would really like—through music, through art—to re-establish the values of humanity,” he said, citing attributes like mutual respect, love, tolerance and friendship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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 certainly represents victory and all those attributes about the Olympics. But it also brings people together, and it’s a symbol of hope and what the Olympic movement really does for everyone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
One user on RedNote writes, "He consistently views issues from the perspective of the vulnerable, attributes personal stress to macro-level causes, and encourages people to actively engage with life - it's truly wonderful."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
In light of Hurd’s portrait, Revere’s work as a silversmith hardly explains these attributes and actions, natural as they seem.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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In June, it was reported numbers were down 50%, which the team attributed to dogs being inside the exclusion zone.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
While Dell “is fairly aligned with the AI trade,” he attributed most of its stellar stock performance to its ability to offset memory prices.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Lula's campaign also complained that Gemini, Google's AI tool, attributed false statements to the incumbent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Executives at Australian tech companies, including Nasdaq-listed Atlassian and privately owned Canva, have attributed their decision to eschew the ASX to what they see as unreasonably low valuations on offer locally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Against that grim list, the sole crowd infectious diseases that can be attributed with certainty to pre-Columbian Native American societies were nonsyphilitic treponemas.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
However, experts have questioned the artwork's provenance, with some scholars attributing it to Giacomo Ceruti - another Italian artist from the same period.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Words such as “believed,” “thought” and “decided” are convenient shorthand, but they also risk attributing human mental states when the evidence supports only observed behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
While Netflix does not offer a free service, the streaming giant in October 2022 began offering a lower-priced ad-supported option, later attributing the offering with a boost in subscription counts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, her new husband fluttered among the diners attributing his mother-in-law’s absence to a sudden attack of asthma and his bride’s tears to the emotions of the occasion.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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