ascribable

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In March 2018, Professor Ronell pointedly complained that Mr. Reitman had a penchant for “comparing me to the most egregious examples of predatory behaviors ascribable to Hollywood moguls who habitually go after starlets.”

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2018

DONTNOD, meanwhile, still have something to prove – the reception to Remember Me was warm, but highlighted problems potentially ascribable to its long and problematic development.

From Forbes • Aug. 11, 2014

"Her achievements are not ascribable merely to the accident of birth, but to qualities which many women must cultivate today: perseverance, courage, intellectual concern."

From Time Magazine Archive

Musical comedy hath few charms not ascribable to Oh, Kay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let us rather say that a myth is a tradition in narrative form, more or less current in more or less differing garb among different races, to which religious or superhuman significations may be ascribable.

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin