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Justice Chandrachud said his comment on seeking divine guidance was because “I am a person of faith” and “to impute motives to judges is not right”.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

We can’t impute the human motives of revenge to creatures whose intelligence and emotions are funneled through an entirely different evolutionary scheme.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

To some listeners, though, he remains a toxic figure whose alleged misdeeds impute a moral if not a commercial stain on artists who continue to work with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

One of the risks we outlined was that people impute communicative intent to things that seem humanlike.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

I have thought up a horrible dream to impute to Hrothgar.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

“Leave of absence still imputes the financial interests of the firm to him.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020

The bureau imputes the characteristics of a small number of households in every census.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2020

He imputes ill motives to those who disagree with him.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2018

Finally, this worldview imputes motives to the media that just aren’t there.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2016

That letter, already quoted, imputes to her more wit than others; wit, or penetration, by which she sensed correctly the conversation going on between two of her persecutors.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

Miran also questioned parts of the inflation data that rely on imputed prices rather than observed transactions, particularly in services.

From Barron's ● Dec. 15, 2025

However, the prosecution had also angered members of Paty's family by refusing to push for maximum sentences, and by downgrading the qualification of some of the imputed crimes.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

"If a family member endorses a publicly endorses a candidate for office, the code says it could be imputed to the judge," Alfini said.

From Salon ● May 17, 2024

"We still got a couple of weeks before the actual meeting, so if anybody imputed some specific basis points of what I was for, that’d be inaccurate," he said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023

I struggled to understand his jest; and when I recognized what he imputed, my mother’s low condition, I knew not what to say.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“At current trading levels, we estimate the stock is currently imputing lower LNG margins, minimal future growth, and/or additional negative arbitration outcomes beyond what the company has stated,” they wrote.

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

A public outcry ended both projects, but Mr. Goldman’s family secured the book rights, added material imputing guilt to Mr. Simpson and had it published.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

“The idea of imputing malice or intent to a machine — my own view is, we are not ready for that,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

But that’s as far as Skolimowski goes in imputing motives or desires to EO, apart from the basic compulsions to eat, rest and roam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

I can’t understand, Mary, how you take such delight in imputing disagreeable motives to people.

From Those Dale Girls by Frank Weston Carruth