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attribute

[uh-trib-yoot, a-truh-byoot] / əˈtrɪb yut, ˈæ trəˌbyut /




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The New York Post has released the copy they received that they attribute to the suspect.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

“It’s always tough with a company like Nike, where it’s so big and the titles are frankly so big in leadership, to really know what to attribute to O’Neill,” Zackfia said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026

And whatever their failures are, that ends up being their ruling attribute to their poker game, as it were.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

The friends attribute their obsession to nostalgia for childhood—when they first watched it—and the simple charm of ’90s New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The natural assumption of children, Markman argues, is that if an object or person is given a second label, then that label must refer to some secondary property or attribute of that object.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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