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Justice Chandrachud said his comment on seeking divine guidance was because “I am a person of faith” and “to impute motives to judges is not right”.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

We can’t impute the human motives of revenge to creatures whose intelligence and emotions are funneled through an entirely different evolutionary scheme.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

To some listeners, though, he remains a toxic figure whose alleged misdeeds impute a moral if not a commercial stain on artists who continue to work with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

Its lawyers contend that “PIF only provides high-level oversight, not the ‘pervasive control’ over day-to-day operations required to impute the subsidiary’s contacts to a foreign owner.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2023

I have thought up a horrible dream to impute to Hrothgar.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Like Van Gogh’s brush work, Thomas’s imputes electricity or some other unseen energy to the whole of the universe.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

“Leave of absence still imputes the financial interests of the firm to him.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020

The bureau imputes the characteristics of a small number of households in every census.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2020

Finally, this worldview imputes motives to the media that just aren’t there.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2016

Even plants he regards as only rooted animals, motionless, but having sensations and desires; he imputes the superiority of man to the mere fact of his having hands.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Miran also questioned parts of the inflation data that rely on imputed prices rather than observed transactions, particularly in services.

From Barron's ● Dec. 15, 2025

However, the prosecution had also angered members of Paty's family by refusing to push for maximum sentences, and by downgrading the qualification of some of the imputed crimes.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

"If a family member endorses a publicly endorses a candidate for office, the code says it could be imputed to the judge," Alfini said.

From Salon ● May 17, 2024

"We still got a couple of weeks before the actual meeting, so if anybody imputed some specific basis points of what I was for, that’d be inaccurate," he said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023

Ebright seemed eager to seize the opportunity to exact revenge for the wrongs he had imputed to Pocock.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

“At current trading levels, we estimate the stock is currently imputing lower LNG margins, minimal future growth, and/or additional negative arbitration outcomes beyond what the company has stated,” they wrote.

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

“The idea of imputing malice or intent to a machine — my own view is, we are not ready for that,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

But that’s as far as Skolimowski goes in imputing motives or desires to EO, apart from the basic compulsions to eat, rest and roam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

Our "forefathers" would have laughed out loud if someone had told them that 200 years hence, Americans would be imputing intentions to them, to what at that time, would have been unheard-of situations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2017

She began by grossly underrating poor Darcy, and imputing to him the vilest of motives; she ended by overrating him as unjustly.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds