attribute
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“Often, as we get older, we attribute balance problems to ‘oh, that’s just aging’ — and certainly there are age-related changes — but that doesn’t mean we can’t intervene,” Riska says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
But Metcalfe put a fine point on what had become a core attribute of media by the end of the twentieth century.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The trade group attributes the rise to organized criminal networks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
She said her inbox has been inundated with more queries than ever, which she attributes to writers using LLMs to mass-spam agents, and has received submissions that seemed clearly AI-generated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He attributes the fact that no fatalities have been reported in part to the seriousness with which residents and public safety personnel have handled evacuations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
“And I have to say you have a lot of the skills and attributes that we’re looking for in our paralegal candidates.”
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Chief Executive Jim Conroy attributed the results to the company’s marketing initiatives and work to improve the in-store experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But Xu attributed his success to education -- and the Communist Party.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
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 document, seen by BBC Sport, values the club's physical assets at more than £200m, though no specific sum has been attributed to the sale of its struggling teams.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The last-known animal wound infestation that could be attributed to screw-worms occurred in February 1959.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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“We were able to approach the bird quietly, without disturbing it,” Kanowa said, attributing the win to the super-stealthy electric truck she was driving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Some experts warn that attributing too much to AI could give tech companies a loophole to avoid responsibility and liability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Clayton-Thomas left the band in 1972, attributing his departure to exhaustion from years of relentless touring.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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
However, a veterinarian in Bainbridge, Georgia, Dr. Otis L. Poitevint, who was called upon to treat many of the affected animals, has summarized his reasons for attributing the deaths to the insecticide as follows.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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