attribute
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One attribute they look for is confidence in a business’s present value and the cash it will generate over its lifetime that help give it a moat.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Experts attribute the extremely warm ocean temperatures that fueled Rachel, which peaked as a Category 3 hurricane, in part to El Niño.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
"There's no single attribute or a single metric that we particularly go after," Cave explained.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Because the Z boson itself barely interacts with the plasma, the researchers could attribute these wake patterns directly to individual quarks traveling through the material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Clara’s strangeness was simply an attribute of their youngest daughter, like Luis’s limp or Rosa’s beauty.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Salon’s source in the community attributes this to a nostalgia among former Persian oligarchs residing in Beverly Hills, which is known colloquially as Tehrangeles.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Procter & Gamble attributes its acquisition of Thorne as a reason for its guidance boost.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Gretchen Palek, head of alternative at Blumhouse Television, attributes the show’s success to the careful and sensitive approach to telling these terrifying experiences while highlighting real-life universal anxieties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
That figure has now fallen to 19%, which Fifpro attributes in part to maternity regulations that were introduced by Fifa in 2021 and updated two years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
He pointed out that, far from our being made in the image of God, we make our gods in our own image: ‘we forge for ourselves the attributes of God, taking ourselves as the correlative.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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He attributed this to Axon’s “controls and privacy work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The simulated oxygen concentrations were lower than the experimental measurements, which the scientists attributed to differences between the simplified model and the more complex chemical composition of actual basalt.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Written on the walls of the heritage centre is the quote attributed to Bevan about creating the NHS in 1948: "We will Tredegarise you."
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Australian companies attributed the downturn to both the impact of higher prices and higher interest rates eroding demand, said Jingyi Pan, economics associate director at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He attributed to this weakness the fact that he could never get beyond the Future Simple of Utor.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
Optical stocks were hit especially hard in Monday’s action, with analysts attributing the moves in part to cautious commentary about AI spending.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
“We’re extremely proud of these Star Ratings,” Chief Executive Jim Rechtin said, attributing the improvement to employees’ efforts to provide members with high-quality care and coordinated support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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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