as in attributed
to explain (something) as being the result of something else
ascribed their stunning military victory to good intelligence beforehand
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Recent Examples of ascribed
Dropbox's current market cap of just over $6 billion is down by half from the high price on its first day of trading in 2018, and is below the $10 billion valuation it was ascribed by private market investors in 2014.
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Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 26 May 2026
Investors in BDCs rely on the values ascribed to the loans, since there is no active market where the assets trade.
—Olivia Fishlow, Fortune, 17 May 2026
Science communication scholars originally ascribed to a top-down, one-way model of communication.
—Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
Russian officials have not identified the source of the drones, but Russia’s defense ministry has ascribed other drone swarms in the Arkhangelsk region to Ukraine.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
Another Readymade ascribed to Rrose, Fresh Widow (1920), features a scale model of a French window with panels of black leather covering the glass.
—Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
In 2023, an agency spokeswoman even ascribed the blame in part to holidays.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
At the start of the year, Jacob Elordi sat on the Jimmy Kimmel sofa to promote Wuthering Heights, wearing a pair of off-white Bottega Veneta loafers that were not quite ballet flats, but ascribed to this hybrid style (though many users compared them to ballet flats online).
—Jack Stanley, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2026
Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 26 May 2026
Investors in BDCs rely on the values ascribed to the loans, since there is no active market where the assets trade.
—Olivia Fishlow, Fortune, 17 May 2026
Science communication scholars originally ascribed to a top-down, one-way model of communication.
—Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
Russian officials have not identified the source of the drones, but Russia’s defense ministry has ascribed other drone swarms in the Arkhangelsk region to Ukraine.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
Another Readymade ascribed to Rrose, Fresh Widow (1920), features a scale model of a French window with panels of black leather covering the glass.
—Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
In 2023, an agency spokeswoman even ascribed the blame in part to holidays.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
At the start of the year, Jacob Elordi sat on the Jimmy Kimmel sofa to promote Wuthering Heights, wearing a pair of off-white Bottega Veneta loafers that were not quite ballet flats, but ascribed to this hybrid style (though many users compared them to ballet flats online).
—Jack Stanley, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2026
Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ascribed
attributed
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Fires are sometimes attributed to electrical faults, but there have also been cases of students burning down schools because of disciplinary issues.—
Evelyne Musambi,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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The decrease is attributed to a wind-down of construction after Metro opened its LAX/Metro Transit Center and the A Line extension to Pomona.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
29 May 2026
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“Ascribed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ascribed. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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