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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

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

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Like Van Gogh’s brush work, Thomas’s imputes electricity or some other unseen energy to the whole of the universe.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

“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

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

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2016

Calef imputes to her a subsequent position which may be so construed as to indicate that she declined to stand by her previous statements.

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

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

“I think, under the law, anything in the prosecutor’s possession, which includes prison records, the knowledge is imputed to the prosecutor, correct?” she asked.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 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

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

“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

Our "forefathers" would have laughed out loud if someone had told them that 200 years hence, Americans would be imputing intentions to them, to what at that time, would have been unheard-of situations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2017

Instead of imputing this, as I would formerly have done, to any direct interference of the devil, I ascribed it to the natural deception of my own disordered senses.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)