as in ascribing
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 imputing
That data is then preprocessed by imputing gaps, flagging outliers and normalizing signals.
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Nagesh Nama, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Estimates are that some 35% of BLS data for its price reports is affected in some way by imputing.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
Nagesh Nama, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Estimates are that some 35% of BLS data for its price reports is affected in some way by imputing.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imputing
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Poor luck plagued him, but ascribing all of this outing to misfortune is misguided.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
7 Aug. 2025
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Over subsequent decades, this credo would face challenges, including from New Deal–era progressives wary of rich men ascribing to charity what was properly the realm of the state and of McCarthyite conservatives targeting philanthropic foundations as part of anticommunist fearmongering.—
Mark Malloch-Brown,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2024
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What's really behind the baby bust The reasons Americans choose not to have children are hotly debated in academic circles, with many attributing America’s baby bust to shifting priorities and societal norms.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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But attributing everything to the turnovers overlooks the fact that Michigan has thrown for fewer than 150 yards in back-to-back games against two of the worst teams in the Big Ten.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Imputing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imputing. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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