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ascribe

verb as in assign to source

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A majority of respondents ascribed consciousness to a broad taxonomic breadth of animals, although at slightly lower majorities as compared to emotions.

Consequently, the notion of "food safety" too has become entangled with religion, which is sometimes used to ascribe motive to alleged incidents of contamination.

From BBC

They chat about how Americans rarely ascribe meaning to names, leading Igor to look up the origin of Ani’s full name, Anora.

From Salon

India’s foreign ministry, in bruising remarks on Monday, ascribed Canada’s allegations to the “political agenda of the Trudeau government that is centred around vote bank politics”.

From BBC

The head of UN peacekeeping said there was reason to believe some firing on UN positions in southern Lebanon had been direct, though he did not ascribe responsibility for the incidents.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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