Thesaurus results for IMPUTED

imputed

verb

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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Context matters for understanding the meaning that many in Argentina ascribed to that goal.

— Cesar R. Torres, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
Another type of bacteria, Staphylococcus, was ascribed to the mummy’s microbiome.

— Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 June 2026