- present participle of attribute.
attributing
Example Sentences
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Clayton-Thomas left the band in 1972, attributing his departure to exhaustion from years of relentless touring.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
The company has outlined a near-term total addressable market of $5.7 trillion, attributing just $370 billion to space-enabled solutions.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Chief Executive Michael Bender called the result Kohl’s best comparable-sales performance in over four years, attributing the moderate decline to ongoing efforts to improve the business.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Chopra responded, “Nothing human is foreign to me,” attributing that to a “Roman poet whose name I forget.”
From Salon • May 19, 2026
I described Dad’s symptoms, attributing them not to my father but to a fictive uncle.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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