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as in attributing
to explain (something) as being the result of something else
has to credit his success in picking winning lottery numbers to pure luck
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as in believing
to regard as right or true
I simply cannot credit that story about the boy who was supposedly raised by wolves
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Recent Examples of crediting
Tocchet has already come away impressed with the Cates-Tyson Foerster-Bobby Brink line, crediting them Saturday for setting the pace in practice.
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Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
No rockets had landed, Choi said, crediting Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
A number of high profile soccer and NFL stars have expressed their enthusiasm for chess, with several athletes from across a variety of sports crediting it with helping their own profession.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Irwin politely refused to accept Tonioli and Hough's adulations, crediting it all to his partner.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Donna Summer’s Posthumous Hits Since her death, several tracks crediting Summer have been released, and some have even become hits on Billboard rankings.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
City leaders have also touted a 15 percent drop in the murder rate, in part crediting local violence intervention initiatives.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
Similar declines in stop-arm violations have also been reported in Hillsborough County, with officials crediting the technology for helping to change driver behavior almost immediately.
—Buspatrol - A Mission-Driven Organization, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Chinese authorities said that headline CPI had slipped into negative territory largely due to the high-base last year and lower food prices, while crediting the narrower decline in producer prices in part to Beijing's efforts in regulating the excessive price competition.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
No rockets had landed, Choi said, crediting Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
A number of high profile soccer and NFL stars have expressed their enthusiasm for chess, with several athletes from across a variety of sports crediting it with helping their own profession.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Irwin politely refused to accept Tonioli and Hough's adulations, crediting it all to his partner.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Donna Summer’s Posthumous Hits Since her death, several tracks crediting Summer have been released, and some have even become hits on Billboard rankings.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
City leaders have also touted a 15 percent drop in the murder rate, in part crediting local violence intervention initiatives.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
Similar declines in stop-arm violations have also been reported in Hillsborough County, with officials crediting the technology for helping to change driver behavior almost immediately.
—Buspatrol - A Mission-Driven Organization, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Chinese authorities said that headline CPI had slipped into negative territory largely due to the high-base last year and lower food prices, while crediting the narrower decline in producer prices in part to Beijing's efforts in regulating the excessive price competition.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crediting
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But with officials attributing nearly 90% of waterway pollution to encampments, the city also had to reduce the impacts from the unhoused population as part of its permit, which proved a costly endeavor last year.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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Cinema sometimes has to know how to give in to a cause, but another thing entirely is to impoverish cinema by attributing to documentary cinema a mere and strict role of denunciation.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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So if believing that your rosy glow or struggles with heartburn make waiting to meet your baby a little bit easier to bear, then may these myths be around forever.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Maybe this is buyer’s remorse from believing last season.—
CJ Moore,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Poor luck plagued him, but ascribing all of this outing to misfortune is misguided.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
7 Aug. 2025
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Over subsequent decades, this credo would face challenges, including from New Deal–era progressives wary of rich men ascribing to charity what was properly the realm of the state and of McCarthyite conservatives targeting philanthropic foundations as part of anticommunist fearmongering.—
Mark Malloch-Brown,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2024
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Hughes and others began resisting orders in passive ways, showing up late or taking patrols extra slowly.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Still, the two main budget bills easily passed both chambers and were sent to the governor before the Senate took up the marijuana tax legislation, taking the bite out of Hall's threat.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Petrino fired defensive coordinator Travis Williams and defensive assistant coaches Deke Adams and Marcus Woodson early Monday as one of his first acts after accepting the interim offer from Yurachek.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
29 Sep. 2025
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The proposal also states that all hostages held in Gaza should be released within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting the agreement -- a condition that would likely be impossible to meet but may be an attempt to put Hamas on a clock.—
Shannon K. Kingston,
ABC News,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Crediting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crediting. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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