ascribe to
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He meant that music is nonrepresentational—it speaks in a language of rhythms and harmonies, and any meaning we ascribe to it is our own projection, informed by context or habits of mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“And that’s really disappointing and discouraging to a lot of female politicians who don’t ascribe to that type of behavior.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
It was also a "tough" decision because Mr Veevers did not ascribe to a specific custom, and no will had been presented to show that he wished "to exit the world in a certain way".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
What meaning do you ascribe to the work?
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
That which you call design in the production of man, the Materialists, we repeat, ascribe to the energies, adaptations, and affinities in matter, whereby all organic structure in Nature is effected.
From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Logan Mitchell
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