attributable

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"Hybrid warfare" is when a hostile state carries out an anonymous, deniable attack, usually in highly suspicious circumstances, but stops short of being an attributable act of war.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Sheldon Jacobson, an engineering professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a regular commentator on the aviation industry, tells me that the capacity issues are directly attributable to the lack of TSA pay.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026

“The difference of €400m is attributable to €200m of tariffs and €200m of FX, although both of these were in forecasts to varying extents,” the analysts said on the weaker-than-expected guidance for the year.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

Profit attributable to shareholders rose 36 percent to US$2.3 billion, while total revenue and other income jumped 30 percent to also hit a peak of US$3.7 billion.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

To find a documented poisoning attributable to wild sweet pea, I had to go all the way back to the nineteenth-century annals of Arctic exploration.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer