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impute

[im-pyoot] / ɪmˈpjut /


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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

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

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2022

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

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

“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

One imputes the difference to Cain's avarice, another to his ambition, another to his innate sinfulness, and another to his envy and jealousy on account of Abel's wife.

From Bible Romances First Series by G. W. (George William) Foote

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

“Case law does not support the logic between imputing liability for prior similar incidents based on alleged conduct that occurred in the city surrounding the subject premises,” attorneys for the promoter claimed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2022

Between the 25th of October and the 17th of November, thirty-three knights, chaplains, and serving brothers, were examined, all of whom positively denied every article imputing crime or infidelity to their order.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison




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