How to Use take the credit in a Sentence

take the credit

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• Philly gets to take the credit for that one.
  — Natasha Brown, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
• Human beings will have to take the credit or the blame.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
• Marinakis is a man who is more than happy to take the credit for things that go right — of which there have been plenty over the years — but less keen to publicly take the blame when things go wrong.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• Iger's predecessor Michael Eisner can take the credit for that and his track record at Disney really is the fairest of them all.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• And while the data is unclear on whether the combined department should take the credit for that success, the model has offered unique advantages that city leaders say could serve the city for years to come.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026