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imputes

verb

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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Recent Examples of imputes That imputes a total cost of $566 million. — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2025

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One automatically ascribes fraud to results that are often predictable, even routine; the other dismisses legitimate concerns as conspiracy theories.

— Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
In line with the science of his time, which said that lunar craters were volcanic, Verne ascribes his flickering light to an eruption.

— Neil Oseman, Space.com, 14 June 2026

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Rodriguez attributes her child’s death to the addictive nature of social media and the harms her daughter confronted on those platforms.

— Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Stanford professor David Larcker, an author of the report, attributes the pullback to the public growing tired of politics seeping into every facet of American life.

— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

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