attributing

Example Sentences

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In the days after the meeting, social media users and bloggers began misattributing several statements from the livestream to FDA panelists, when they were actually made by independent speakers during a public comment period.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Brian Kilmeade, the Fox News contributor explained that they were misattributing extortion.

From Fox News • Nov. 12, 2019

Please refrain from misattributing popular sayings to celebrities.

From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2019

I think these kind of anecdotal stories are probably misattributing what campaigns get right and what they get wrong.

From Slate • Sep. 27, 2017

Our illusion thus consists in mutually misattributing the characteristics of the unreal forms—the modes of ajñâna and the real being.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath