attribute
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The WHO verifies and records attacks on healthcare but does not attribute blame as it is not an investigation agency.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Many analysts attribute that drop to Amazon.com’s Prime Day sales event, which the company held in June this year instead of July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Scientists currently attribute that acceleration to dark energy, a phenomenon whose underlying nature remains poorly understood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"I suppose people attribute the more coercive and economically less helpful policies to Xi personally but associate more positive elements, such as technological advances, to China more broadly."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
This is the one attribute at which I'm not below average: body heft.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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Although under a somewhat faded exterior, Pacoima Middle School has flashy technology and other attributes, including expanded academic offerings, rising test scores, a robotics lab, a room of new fitness equipment and added garden space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The dark-eyed beauty Indiana, protagonist of George Sand’s 1832 novel of the same name, shares quite a few attributes with her creator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The attributes that show why he was so highly rated during his time in the academy were easy to spot, even while starting in Arsenal's back four.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Apollo attributes that weakness to rich offering valuations, higher interest rates and a public market increasingly dominated by a handful of profitable megacapitalization companies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
On stage, male musicians may co-opt female gendered attributes as part of a performance, such as Heavy or Hair Metal band members wearing long hair and make-up.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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For the 2025 calendar year, 20,685 deaths were attributed across the nation to COVID-19 on death certificates, according to the CDC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The drop was partly attributed to the “SaaS Apocalypse,” but also to investor concerns about the impact of a 2025 acquisition, a move the company made to expand the business in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The company attributed the increase to a better mix of customers and products, and said that the figure includes adjustments for $9 million in stock-based-compensation expense.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Most of that growth was attributed to 614 more people occupying shelter beds than the year before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In this way, anything that happens can more easily be attributed to your wonderful and probably expensive intervention.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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“The money lies in the RBIs,” Kent said while attributing that quote to Lasorda during his speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
After heat-related deaths reached a peak of 645 in 2023, they declined to 405 in 2025 - with many experts attributing part of the decline to the policy changes.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
If attributing the outbreak of the Civil War to the publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was an exaggeration, it was a defensible one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The company has outlined a near-term total addressable market of $5.7 trillion, attributing just $370 billion to space-enabled solutions.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Otis had praised Pollard in print since his initial condemnation of his ride in the Santa Anita Handicap, even suggesting that he may have been wrong in attributing the loss to the jockey.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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