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To ascribe to particular diets and exercise practices that micro-optimize your body is one thing; you may be putting yourself through trials the Jackass guys would never dare, but at least it’s your own body.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

“We ascribe to them too much competence. I do not consider what’s happening now to be the result of great strategic thinking.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

“We would ascribe that to data which reinforces the probability the Fed will cut rates in December, but was not so bad that you worry the economy is slowing precipitously,” he said via phone.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025

Investors are willing to ascribe value to the longer-term optionality that comes with its vertical integration strategy and its leveraging of technology to grow market share.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

If one likes, one could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God, but it would be a very strange kind of intervention: there is no evidence that it is directed toward any purpose.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Eurasia Group is one of the world’s leading geopolitical risk consultancies and it ascribes a two-thirds probability to the pause in hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz holding.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026

Today, MS ascribes no value to Resolution in its base case for either company, Anand says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Blackwell ascribes her extreme dog love to never having had a childhood pet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

What is important is that he is able to convince fanatic followers of the sacred mission he ascribes to himself as well as to them.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

Physical science ascribes either extension alone, or extension and weight, to physical substances.

From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)

Hamilton has ascribed his improvement in form after a difficult 2025 to "a change of attitude".

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

He thinks Citrini Research should have ascribed probabilities to all their scenarios to make them more valuable.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026

His embrace of the soon-to-be mayor can most likely be ascribed to a sensible desire to get off on the right foot with the boss of America’s largest city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Thus far, investors haven’t ascribed much value to the business—or, if anything, negative value.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

The explanation why such actions were ascribed to the most majestic of the gods is, the scholars say, that the Zeus of song and story has been made by combining many gods.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“But tonight, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett made it great again by ascribing to me an incident involving Ilya Shapiro.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Wall Street is essentially ascribing the majority of future GLP-1/obesity market share to a duopoly—Lilly and Novo, notwithstanding competition.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2025

“People are ascribing other things to it,” Miserando, said, when real estate ownership “might be the bigger factor than the angle of how strange it is” to see a company going from Texas to California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

“I absolutely do not agree with that statement. In Bangladesh, our high commissioners talk to all political parties without ascribing any labels,” says Ms Sikri.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

I tell you what, Mose, this sure is somebody’s kind of truth, but I wouldn’t be ascribing it to God.”

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe