How to Use impute in a Sentence

impute

verb

• That imputes a total cost of $566 million.
  — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2025
• Left to their own devices, investors start to impute greater significance to key thresholds.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Under previous rules, lenders were forced to impute payment terms for borrowers using these plans.
  — Kenneth R. Harney, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2017
• That impulse to impute something more behind the blank mien of a doll has come to fascinate her on a philosophical level.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
• Our reporters are very careful about imputing motives to people that go beyond the evidence.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 28 June 2017
• Importing it into biology as a whole risks imputing a kind of cryptic self-awareness to all life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• Vote intentions were imputed onto voter file records in Iowa and then aggregated statewide and by district.
  — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Whatever meaning can be imputed to this image is possible only after its effect has been absorbed.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
• The opinions expressed are solely his and should not be imputed to any other individual nor to any public or private entities.
  — Mitchell Berger, STAT, 11 July 2023
• 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
• Estimates are that some 35% of BLS data for its price reports is affected in some way by imputing.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
• That data is then preprocessed by imputing gaps, flagging outliers and normalizing signals.
  — Nagesh Nama, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Thus, there is not a simple answer as business outcomes are layered, and in many cases, not enough data can be imputed to necessarily obtain the correct outcome.
  — Shai Zamanian, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• 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.
  — Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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 fallback explanation imputes genes, which is probably roughly accurate.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2012
• 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
• Refreshingly, Hill and Gaddy refrain from imputing motives to Putin.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
• 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
• With its decision, the court has ruled that legal gun ownership can’t be used to impute unlawful intentions, a powerful assertion of gun rights in Florida.
  — Silas Morgan, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Ferrara seems no smarter than those peasants when his film implies very contemporary fascist/socialist confusion and imputes partisan accusations.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 June 2023
• That means that now, more than a third of price data in the CPI is imputed—estimated rather than directly observed—since fewer agents are collecting prices in person.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
• His definition of terrorism does not require imputing specific motives to protesters who own a gun or, like Renee Nicole Good, drive a car.
  — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
• 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
• An obvious example is the law passed recently criminalizing speech that imputes to Poland complicity in the Holocaust.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 July 2018