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ascribe to

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chalk up
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How much meaning can we ascribe to an encore?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 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

It’s definitely more than what people ascribe to it as a part of a show.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

Many effective altruists ascribe to a philosophy called longtermism, which holds that the lives of people deep in the future are as valuable as lives today.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2023

American approval he might well ascribe to national bias if not to personal friendship.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston




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