How to Use attribute (something) to (someone or something) in a Sentence

attribute (something) to (someone or something)

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• Berberine also has a laxative effect, which could attribute to weight loss effects, but not long-term.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• Any kind of trauma, such as pelvic or low back injuries, can also attribute to dysfunction if not properly addressed.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Chamomile tea is renowned for its calming properties and sedative effects, which many experts attribute to its apigenin content.
  — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 30 Sep. 2024
• But Congress has struggled to pass spending bills in the years since, something many experts attribute to the absence of earmarks.
  — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
• Part of the growth of the spice can be attribute to the increase in Peruvian restaurants, where ají amarillo is a staple in the cuisine.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
• Each birthstone is surrounded by a number of stories, legends, and myths that attribute to it a variety of meanings and powers.
  — Nina Derwin, Country Living, 6 Apr. 2023
• The price is also a reflection of the medicinal value some people attribute to the bitter-tasting honey.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• Other types and combinations of gases will be easier to detect but might be harder to definitively attribute to life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• The growth in that source of income has tapered off in recent years — something city officials attribute to decreases in consumer confidence.
  — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 9 June 2025
• The third revolution came in 2000, which researchers also attribute to the mainstream appeal of hip-hop.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024
• But despite a surge in interest in the game that longtime players attribute to the pandemic, Atlanta has few places for pickleballers to play.
  — Riley Bunch, ajc, 3 July 2023
• Run clubs have boomed in recent years — a trend many attribute to people turning to the sport during the pandemic and younger generations using them to make friends or find a partner.
  — Sommer Brugal, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• But the decline continues a trend that critics attribute to the state’s high cost of living, a pressing housing shortage and other issues that are prompting exits.
  — Christian Wade | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 July 2024
• Men tend to have higher levels than women, which researchers attribute to menstruation helping eliminate the chemicals from the body.
  — Patricia Kime, Hannah Norman, Kff Health News, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• In fact, over 40 million people have attempted college but did not achieve a credential, which most attribute to financial challenges.
  — Carrie Welton, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
• The park is facing damages that are difficult to attribute to any one event, especially as events get closer together, according to Wales.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
• The new law was prompted by the decadelong break, which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
  — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2022
• Those assumptions have been tested in recent decades, as a number of once-in-a-lifetime phenomena have occurred with a frequency too high to credibly attribute to pure chance.
  — Alan Greenspan, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
• Because of what historians attribute to an oversight, Wilson and Shadrach never received the award posthumously.
  — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 3 July 2024
• Bianco maintains that the jail deaths, many of which authorities attribute to drug overdoses and suicides, are a reflection of the inmates’ life choices rather than a sign of any problem with the jail system.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
• Tommy Lee and his wife Brittany Furlan are reportedly headed to Splitsville, due to what some attribute to his battle with alcoholism.
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
• Committee Democrats also questioned the bill’s expansion of the three-strikes law, a relic of the state’s tough-on-crime past that many attribute to the wave of mass incarcerations that has filled up prisons.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The number of monarchs at the wintering sites in Mexico dropped by 59% this year, which experts attribute to extreme weather like heat and drought, pesticide use and habitat loss.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2024
• Despite being one of the pre-tournament favorites, the Northern Irishman performed poorly in the event, which many attribute to his need to play with a different driver than usual.
  — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
• Many of her songs contain synthetic-sounding vocal slips that a listener might attribute to Auto-Tune, but which Polachek achieves by flipping sharply between her head voice and her chest voice.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• Overdose deaths in Anchorage have nearly tripled since 2018, a spike state officials largely attribute to the prevalence of fentanyl, which counterfeit drugs are often laced with.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2022
• More New Yorkers have stopped paying their property taxes — a troubling trend since the onset of the pandemic that city officials attribute to the end of a tax-lien sales program that punishes delinquency.
  — Martin Z. Braun, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• With the Big Ten attempting to take the reigns as the best football conference, this level of production from the basketball programs down south could change the payment structure that teams attribute to their athletics programs.
  — Tyler Small, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
• Overdose deaths in Anchorage have nearly tripled since 2018, a spike that state officials largely attribute to the prevalence of fentanyl, an opioid many times stronger than heroin that’s often found in counterfeit drugs.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023