ascribed; ascribing
: to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing
These poems are usually ascribed to Homer.
They ascribe most of their success to good timing and good luck.
She ascribes no importance to having a lot of money.
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ascribed their stunning military victory to good intelligence beforehand
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Yet none of the genomes showed more than one percent European ancestry, a fraction low enough to be ascribed to a spurious statistical fluke.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
Data collected in the late 1800s and early 1900s suggested different races have different lung capacities, a phenomenon researchers ascribed to innate biology rather than social, economic or environmental factors.
—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Only Keynesians ascribe an ability of governments to increase demand, but that’s to the everlasting discredit of Keynesianism.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
This is all to say that the problems often ascribed to climate change are fundamentally problems of poverty.
—Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
Data collected in the late 1800s and early 1900s suggested different races have different lung capacities, a phenomenon researchers ascribed to innate biology rather than social, economic or environmental factors.
—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Only Keynesians ascribe an ability of governments to increase demand, but that’s to the everlasting discredit of Keynesianism.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
This is all to say that the problems often ascribed to climate change are fundamentally problems of poverty.
—Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
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as·cribe
ə-ˈskrīb 
ascribed; ascribing
: to think of as coming from a specified cause, source, or author
a statement ascribed to Plato
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