ascription
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“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion. We’re moving toward a place where taste is the true arbiter,” she says.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
“Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate,” Conway and Kochen write, “since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom.”
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2021
We desire to be recognised for who we really are, and seek in our very ascription the means of uniting our intimate identities with our social selves.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2015
To some extent, the ascription of malevolent powers to chemicals is an attempt to explain behavior that otherwise seems inexplicable.
From Forbes ● Aug. 21, 2014
Pseudepig′raphy, the ascription to books of false names of authors.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
