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imputed

verb

Definition of imputednext
past tense of impute
as in ascribed
to explain (something) as being the result of something else people often impute his silence to unfriendliness and not to the shyness it really represents

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Recent Examples of imputed 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imputed
  1. ascribed
  2. attributed
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  • 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
  • After the meeting, Harper ascribed the tensions that boiled over to a divide between the board and the district’s teachers union on how to improve student achievement.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of ascribed
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  • Those losses cover many kinds of online crime and cannot be attributed to AI malware.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The first is that most of the M6’s gains can be attributed to its extra CPU and GPU cores relative to the M5, and the M5 Pro, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra all obviously still have more of both kinds of cores than the M6 does.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
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“Imputed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imputed. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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