imputes

present tense third-person singular of impute
as in ascribes
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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“Imputes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imputes. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

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