How to Use impute in a Sentence

impute

verb

• Left to their own devices, investors start to impute greater significance to key thresholds.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Our reporters are very careful about imputing motives to people that go beyond the evidence.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 28 June 2017
• Under previous rules, lenders were forced to impute payment terms for borrowers using these plans.
  — Kenneth R. Harney, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2017
• These results indicate that women and men impute gender to numbers in different ways and to different extents.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
• To impute such sage maturity to one’s juniors may be the ultimate version of fantasy football.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2016
• If Trump voters are more likely to hang up on pollsters, then how should a forecast impute the preferences of non-respondents?
  — Aditya Kotak, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2020
• Vote intentions were imputed onto voter file records in Iowa and then aggregated statewide and by district.
  — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2020
• Statistical methods used to impute numbers in census tracts that were not physically counted have been phased out as the volunteer force grew large enough reach every tract.
  — Doug Smith, latimes.com, 19 May 2018
• Unfortunately, a prosecutor might try to impute these words to the defendant to head off the insanity option.
  — Danny Cevallos, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2018
• To ensure that the estimate was as accurate as possible, the researchers used statistical methods to impute what the races would likely be for children whose races were marked as unknown.
  — Agnel Philip, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• The show currently imputes about $2.4 million an episode in broadcast license fees.
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• Whatever meaning can be imputed to this image is possible only after its effect has been absorbed.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
• Significantly, the court refused to impute to those five tokens the core features of the Bix token and, therefore, all of the claims related to those five tokens were dismissed.
  — Andrea Tinianow, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• The bank has moved to dismiss both suits, claiming that the allegations concerning Staley are unsupported and that any knowledge on his part can’t be imputed to the bank.
  — Ava Benny-Morrison Bloomberg News (tns), al, 16 Feb. 2023
• Sometimes, though, Mr. Trump’s statements leave his own staff in the dark, forcing them to impute a meaning to his words that might not actually exist.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• Lee Merritt: A lot of people began to impute the criminality on the Black person that was coming onto the property.
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2021
• Smith is sometimes classified as an experimental novelist, a label that may impute for some readers a grim, chorelike quality to the reading of her work.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 20 Feb. 2017
• Trying to understand the logic behind his latest astonishing fabrication is like imputing specific motives to the movements of a fish swimming in an aquarium.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
• These words, allegedly, imputed a lack of ability or integrity on the part of Amann to satisfactorily perform his duties as a physician.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 5 June 2018
• The most significant development was also the most question-begging: the impulse to impute significance to rat kings and therefore to report on them, draw attention to them, and preserve them.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
• The fallback explanation imputes genes, which is probably roughly accurate.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2012
• An obvious example is the law passed recently criminalizing speech that imputes to Poland complicity in the Holocaust.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• Once those videoconference recordings are handed over, whoever combs through them will have a great opportunity to look for comments that sound bad, admissions, and statements that might be used to impute bad motivations.
  — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• The analysis imputes usual hours when unavailable or varying, and adjusts weekly earnings for top-coding using a log-linear distributional assumption.
  — Ernie Tedeschi, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• The same petrifying dreadfulness marks those intermittent engravings which impute monstrousness—embodied by eruptive owls or witches—to the dreaming states of the putatively rational.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• The FBI also points to evidence of Russian responsibility, but remains much more cautious about imputing motive or intent.
  — Editors, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2016
• The consumption and income data available in the U.S. are both subject to error, but the consumption data provide more information than income data to impute noncash housing benefits and the service flow from vehicle and home ownership.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 June 2019
• Share Your Story The scheme involved the trio fraudulently imputing fictitious payment requests into the company's computer system to divert the false payments from the company's bank accounts.
  — John D. Harden, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• Stated differently, by criticizing an entire program, the NCAA allegedly imputed wrongful acts on members of the program who were innocent.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• The worst of religious conservatism is on cable news imputing to Trump an almost-Constantinian prestige, uniting nationalist fervor with religious revivalism.
  — Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020

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