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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

He imputes the failure of former geological systems to their having been anti-Mosaical, and directed against a "sublime tradition."

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

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

Ebright seemed eager to seize the opportunity to exact revenge for the wrongs he had imputed to Pocock.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

“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

While I make this remark, understand me as by no means imputing any blame to them.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever