apportion blame

idiom

formal

: to say who should be blamed

Any attempt to apportion blame so many years after the incident is pointless.

Examples of apportion blame in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tretta was one of a number of Brown students who spoke to CNN to mark the restart of classes, amid ongoing questions about security on campus and how to apportion blame for the shooting that left the campus community anxious and rattled. —Leigh Waldman, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026

Reasonable people disagreed about how to apportion blame. —Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2026

This is not the time to start fighting again about how exactly to apportion blame for Tottenham’s 17th-place Premier League finish in 2024-25. —Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 2 July 2025

Democrats have engaged in soul-searching and finger-pointing within the party as members look to apportion blame for the defeat. —Ivana Saric, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024

Those blameworthy influencers, in turn, must identify their respective influences and apportion blame among them. —Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023

Moscow didn’t apportion blame. —Adam Schreck and Vasilisa Stepanenko, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022

Rhymes for apportion blame

• acclaim
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• ballgame
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• mainframe