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attributed

verb

past tense of attribute

as in ascribed

to explain (something) as being the result of something else attributed the quick rescue to the well-trained police force

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to give the reason for or cause of a psychotherapist who's a little too quick to attribute every emotional problem or character defect to an unhappy childhood

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Recent Examples of attributed Blair attributed the incident to drinking a glass of wine and taking a pill. — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 Williams Trading analyst Sam Poser attributed the stock's response to the lack of details provided by management. — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 That’s easily the most for any calendar year since AAA started tracking in 2000, surpassing the prior record of 158 in 2022 during the Biden administration, much of which was attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 Entrepreneur Emma Grede attributed her ability to keep brands relevant to her complete assuredness in her intuition, which was honed in the expanses of her triumphs—and failures. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 The military attributed the crash of a PAC MFI-17 Mushshak plane near the town of Nawan Killi in Balochistan province to a technical fault. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Some posts included images that were attributed to Syria but were, in fact, from different Middle Eastern wars. — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 And a claim does not become a fact simply because it has been repeated or attributed to a public figure. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Panamanian authorities had not attributed any deaths to the earthquakes. — Aris Mariota, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026

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The circumstances of Saint Michael’s help while the pilgrim labored and delivered in the ocean were markedly different from those in the miracle ascribed to the Virgin.

— Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
Her presence, too, is felt in the people who now inhabit the space, like her granddaughter Charley, 25, whose easy warmth recalls qualities long ascribed to the matriarch.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

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Justin Wilson, an associate professor of physics at Louisiana State University and a study coauthor, explained that random interventions could suppress otherwise unpredictable behavior.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Adding that there were multiple bloods; some waterier, some viscous, others stickier, Flanagan explained that blood for dropping was different from what needed to be painted on Howell, which could not drip off.

— Alex Zalben, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026

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