How to Use attribution in a Sentence

attribution

noun
  • Many did so not for attribution, but some went on the record.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Name your sources or skip the attribution.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Knowing about the times in which these men lived helps find attributions that don't make sense.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Just what this attribution means as far as policy goes is not clear.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The challenge is the attribution, which brings us to the third metric.
    Douglas Gregory, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Track attribution at the use-case level.
    Anand Murugan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • In years past, attribution studies could take months to complete.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Even now, no woman who worked through a recruiter would speak for attribution for fear of losing her job.
    Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Three spoke on the record with attribution, while one source spoke on the condition of anonymity.
    Joshua Stewart, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • But the painting didn’t look like a forgery, or a case of mistaken attribution.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Then track the traffic, leads or conversions that flow through that attribution path.
    Douglas Gregory, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Rennie's blog post offered no on-the-record attribution for his report.
    Courant Staff Report, courant.com, 30 May 2017
  • That’s where blockchain challengers step in, attempting to solve attribution at the root.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That attribution piece is very difficult to come by and where many class action suits stumble.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Of the other works, two were removed from the marketplace and the attribution changed on the third.
    New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • In the weeks and months to come, climate attribution science will determine by just how much.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This sort of dubious attribution of motive is rather too frequent in the book.
    Nicholas Kenyon, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
  • One group was shown the works with a male artist’s signature, while others saw the attribution as female.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • One is detection and attribution of climate change—so what does climate change look like?
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Even rough attribution data is far more powerful than no data at all.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Marketers are now realizing that attribution is just one part of the process.
    John Readman, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • While the debate over proper attribution raged, Stewart kept her eyes on the prize.
    Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 17 June 2019
  • Many countries bestow creators with a right of attribution and the right to the integrity of their work.
    Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • The news continues to spin on without me, or attribution, or fact-checking.
    Sarah Stankorb, Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • Kaspersky’s attribution is based on the overlap of code used by the two groups and victims targeted.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 June 2022
  • The fight over attribution Why is there so much fuss about scientific advice to judges?
    ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
  • The Union-Tribune has chosen to use the word with attribution in news stories.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
  • Though there is no attribution for the attack, the weapon and the target fit the pattern of attacks linked to Iran in the past.
    Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • To some, that might appear like an excessively harsh attribution and perhaps a misuse of the term.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 15 July 2025
  • Rose’s initial complaint—that her paintings were, over time, being changed—was of course wrong in its attribution but at some level right.
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023

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