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attribute

[uh-trib-yoot, a-truh-byoot] / əˈtrɪb jut, ˈæ trəˌbjut /




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The researchers attribute the supplement's promising effects to its combination of two ingredients: resistant starch and psyllium husk.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

Tax authorities attribute this in large part to inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Economists attribute to immigrants the bulk of U.S. population growth from 1990 to 2015.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

If she is addicted to fame, mendacity, theatrical performance or whatever pathology some attribute to her, we are addicted to her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the Sanchez brothers dug him up from the cemetery and hauled the body out into full view, and then it was too much to attribute to the Indians.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

She attributes this expected progression to a phenomenon called the "birth cohort effect."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

"Liam has got some great attributes," said North.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Lenat’s team was wary of the pitfalls of vesting their machine with human attributes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

He attributes his successes to Lula's social policies, having won a scholarship before going on to graduate as a lawyer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

You might also decide, since they had quite different attributes, that one of them was merely invented by the priests.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Special Agent in Charge of Cyber & Counterintelligence at FBI Los Angeles, Jeremy Robertson, details the #FaceStealer social engineering scheme attributed to North Korean hackers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Angelo Kourkafas of Edward Jones attributed the pullback in those two stocks to profit-taking.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Pei-ju Lee, an analyst at investment advisor Bradley, Foster&Sargent, attributed the sector’s declines to reports suggesting Nvidia’s “circular investment” strategies could come under review with the eventual appointment of a new CEO.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Microsoft has ruled out a cyber-attack and attributed the ongoing outage to "elevated load" on its infrastructure.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

In his opening statement to the jury, Scoville attributed the assassin’s actions to a disturbed mind.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Tamburini said, attributing his survival to unusually warm ocean waters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

It also means that many criminal offenses hinge on attributing a wrongful act to the mental state of a human being.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

In psychoanalysis, projection involves attributing feelings, intentions, or qualities to someone else.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Denver said that attributing declines to a single tool is an oversimplification and that it views AI tools as “supplemental resources designed to enhance digital literacy and critical thinking.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Although many people greeted the new forensic sciences with reverence, attributing to them a godlike power, they were often susceptible to human error.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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