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[uh-skrahyb] / əˈskraɪb /


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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 most people contend that plagiarism, cheating and ghostwriting are all cut from the same cloth because they all lack the spark that we ascribe to truly original thinking and writing.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

If you’re a seasoned people-mover rider, luxury is probably the last word you’d ascribe to the vehicle another mid-century promo video called a “monster on wheels.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rhind said Monday’s stock action “isn’t just an earnings hangover” but a rerating of Microsoft’s progress with AI — meaning that the market is coming to ascribe a higher multiple to the shares.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

The system described how to categorize living things on the earth, but did not ascribe an underlying logic to its organization.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Today, MS ascribes no value to Resolution in its base case for either company, Anand says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Papic ascribes a 60% probability to the conflict ending in approximately two weeks.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

What is important is that he is able to convince fanatic followers of the sacred mission he ascribes to himself as well as to them.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

"It bears noting that the court has never taken the position the defence ascribes to it: that former 'President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned,'" Judge Chutkan wrote.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023

The special power that belongs to the gospel Christ ascribes altogether to this cause.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay

It’s worth noting that Apple recently raised prices on many products, but the company ascribed those increases to higher costs for memory chips, driven up by intense demand from AI firms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"I observed what appeared to be a fairly bright light source which we tentatively ascribed to a possible laser," he said.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

The company ascribed clear numbers to what management called “improving AI adoption,” highlighting three AI-linked business that had achieved over $1 billion in annual recurring revenue as of the end of the first quarter.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Some investors ascribed Monday’s rally mostly to relief that the weekend was relatively light on bad news.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Every now and then at flea markets, or in the occasional photography book, I come across one of Plantagenet’s old pictures, usually erroneously ascribed to the twenties because of the Daimler.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

But it’s not like Altman doesn’t see the value in ascribing just a little bit of humanlike shine to A.I. models.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

At the current $159 price tag, Jonas believes the market values SpaceX’s Starlink and rocket-launch business at $127 per share, ascribing just $32 of value to the company’s enterprise and consumer AI business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

“But tonight, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett made it great again by ascribing to me an incident involving Ilya Shapiro.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Wall Street is essentially ascribing the majority of future GLP-1/obesity market share to a duopoly—Lilly and Novo, notwithstanding competition.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2025

When it came to my choices, I tried to be somewhat unpredictable, to prevent anyone from ascribing any sort of message to what I wore.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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