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imputed

verb

Definition of imputed

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

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Ghosts have gone more mainstream than vampires, no longer grouped with the other weird freaks— the zombies and the werewolves, that paranormal genre once ascribed only to lovers of the macabre.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 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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Independent Leadership Council pollster Brett Loyd attributed Kiley’s increase to a larger number of voters in the district who have unfavorable views of both major political parties.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
In an interview with Sportico last week, former Murphy aide Peter Mills attributed the failure of a more robust Senate opposition to coalescence against the PCSA in part to the past split between Murphy and Booker.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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