impute

Example Sentences

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That’s not to impute criminality on the part of any of those running to succeed the term-limited Gavin Newsom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

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

In a classic textualist flourish, she declared that she “would impute to Congress only what can fairly be imputed to it: the words of the statute.”

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2022

“And do you impute it to either of those?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen