attribute
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Economists attribute to immigrants the bulk of U.S. population growth from 1990 to 2015.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
This story has been updated to attribute remarks about the Dell family’s contributions to Trump accounts to Robinhood CFO Shiv Verma.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
If she is addicted to fame, mendacity, theatrical performance or whatever pathology some attribute to her, we are addicted to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It says it had not verified those outcomes and "cannot attribute the recruitment decisions to our training".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
But the Sanchez brothers dug him up from the cemetery and hauled the body out into full view, and then it was too much to attribute to the Indians.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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But the 31-year-old showed his key attributes - tenacity, athleticism and controlled aggression - to threaten a huge upset against Medvedev.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Rams displayed all those attributes Sunday in a 35-21 victory over the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Salon’s source in the community attributes this to a nostalgia among former Persian oligarchs residing in Beverly Hills, which is known colloquially as Tehrangeles.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Procter & Gamble attributes its acquisition of Thorne as a reason for its guidance boost.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
To claim that there existed a substance with no measurable attributes was, he maintained, to turn physics into a fantastical story, like Don Quixote.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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But the hack, attributed by cybersecurity researchers to North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group, has rattled the overall crypto market, knocking bitcoin’s price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him,” says a quote attributed to the actor.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
He attributed the change to "lower operating costs compared to running petrol-powered cars", allowing drivers a chance of higher profits.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
A further 24.7% were attributed to voters who had no party affiliation.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Against that grim list, the sole crowd infectious diseases that can be attributed with certainty to pre-Columbian Native American societies were nonsyphilitic treponemas.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Sociologist and political scientist Mayra Goulart, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, also cautions against attributing Lula's comeback solely to social media.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
It also means that many criminal offenses hinge on attributing a wrongful act to the mental state of a human being.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
In psychoanalysis, projection involves attributing feelings, intentions, or qualities to someone else.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The implication being that some companies are attributing layoffs to better tech when it is really just cost-cutting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, her new husband fluttered among the diners attributing his mother-in-law’s absence to a sudden attack of asthma and his bride’s tears to the emotions of the occasion.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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