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ascribe Verb

— To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something. We may ascribe the failure to the leader, but it is also explained by bad luck. — To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a specific writer or painter or creator. It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.

ascribe

— verb (= impute, attribute) attribute or credit to We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare People impute great cleverness to cats

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attribute assign impute relate attribute to unite refer piece link up link joint join colligate bestow award attach associate annex allot yoke write in weld unify twin totalize totalise tie in tie tessellate tell tee supplement summons summate suffix subpoena subjoin string up string splice restore report rebate put together put through pull together pool piggyback mix miter

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I surmised, correctly, as it proved that Lord Henry's doctor would assume that he had succumbed to a surfeit of port and would politely ascribe death to a heart attack.
Do you really think that the finest chess player in the world. would make even half the mistakes that you ascribe to me?
For a man of property it is a view that might be enviable. Though I think you are wrong to ascribe those. enviable thoughts to me.
I am glad my right honourable and gallant colleague is not attempting to ascribe any kind of blame to the Ministry of Defense.
Well, I'll ascribe your insubordination to combat fatigue.
This I ascribe to the proximity of the magnetic coils from Starbug's rear engine.
From the anatomic findings and pertinent history I ascribe the death to. suicide.
Only that I find it interesting that you ascribe feelings and motivations to me that you know nothing about.
Ascribe a numerical value - face, body, personality.
Let's say for the sake of argument that it is the Stargate, a theory to which I do not ascribe.
Don't ascribe some altruistic grand political motives to me doctor.
Liver is the one organ you can't ascribe to intracranial pressure.
The root design would have led me to ascribe it to the selachii, the sharks and the rays. but the crown made me think of the cyclostomes, the lamprey.
You do not do anything, only ascribe to our compatriot.
And unto Thee do we ascribe glory now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Tell me, sir, to what do you ascribe your great, good health?
Though I think you are wrong to ascribe those. enviable thoughts to me.
Ascribe it to the little grey cells.
Let's say for the sake of argument that it is the Stargate,...a theory to which I do not ascribe.
Natural disasters are stressful times. in which people ascribe heightened meaning to random events of physics.
Tornadoes tend to be stressful times. in which people ascribe heightened meaning to random events of physics.
You can't ascribe thematic significance to such.
And not to us, but to thy arm alone, ascribe we all!
The fact is that when you're completely under, the fetus doesn't feel anything either, whereas my action, of course, caused pain, depending on how much consciousness you want to ascribe to a fetus about 12 weeks old.
I, Mustafa the Dervish, cannot ascribe such a behavior to my friend.
In an automated economy. you cannot ascribe. the high level of production. to the working class alone.
Liver Is The One Organ You Can't Ascribe To Intracranial Pressure.
Natural disasters are stressful times in which people ascribe heightened meaning to random events of physics.
Tornadoes tend to be stressful times in which people ascribe heightened meaning to random events of physics.
If Tom had learned anything, it was that you can't ascribe great cosmic significance. to a simple earthly event.
I think it can be a dead end to try to ascribe intentionality.
I wanted to wreck all the women who ascribe meaning to love.
Pete, you are so emotionally cut off and so unwilling to communicate that I have no choice but to analyze and ascribe motive.

News and current affairs

It refuses to ascribe to Iran's secretive state an ideological rigidity that might not exist.
And yet it would be too simple to ascribe the current dispute entirely to the open wounds of the last world war.
Some people ascribe the global collapse of reform efforts to a peculiarly ineffective collection of leaders.
Moreover, Liu argued, the government's marginalization of pro-war sentiment and promotion of anti-war views accords with its broader effort to ascribe almost every domestic and international disaster to American hegemony.
Most glaring is QE supporters' tendency to ascribe any decline in interest rates before the policy was announced to market participants' expectations that QE would be coming.
By the 1920s, most geneticists had abandoned the idea of a single gene for each characteristic and were loath to ascribe human behavior solely to genes.
It is tempting to ascribe the rare African successes - Botswana and Mauritius - to foreign demand for their exports (diamonds and garments, respectively), but that story goes only so far.
Scientists themselves may be able to ascribe these levels of credibility to their own work in fairness, if they describe in detail what they set out to do, and how they did it.
You would have difficulty finding many members of the US Congress who do not ascribe some of America's problems, including the hollowing out of the middle class, to China's alleged currency manipulation.

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