Thesaurus results for IMPUTING

imputing

verb

present participle of impute

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 Importing it into biology as a whole risks imputing a kind of cryptic self-awareness to all life. — Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2026 His definition of terrorism does not require imputing specific motives to protesters who own a gun or, like Renee Nicole Good, drive a car. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026 That data is then preprocessed by imputing gaps, flagging outliers and normalizing signals. — 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

Verb

The group immediate drew praise on social media for not ascribing the cancellation to anything beyond the most obvious factors.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 4 May 2026
Wednesday’s verdict in Los Angeles on the ninth day of jury deliberations shows the difficulty of ascribing how much social media is to blame for youths suffering varying degrees of distress.

— Bloomberg, Bloomberg, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of ascribing

Verb

But if our estimates stand, our figure is substantially lower than some more sensational reports, which may not be correct in attributing bigger hikes in electric bills to data centers.

— Daniel Yue, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
Gartner warns over 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027, attributing cancellations to management issues, not model capabilities.

— Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026