How to Use ascribe (something) to in a Sentence

ascribe (something) to

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• Some also ascribe to them a key role in the sale of Joseph (Rashi, Genesis 42:24).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
• That’s a lot of weight to ascribe to a narrow victory over a winless Atlanta team in Week Two.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2020
• They are embedded in the day-to-day work, ascribe to the company culture and understand the status quo.
  — Erik Huberman, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Trump could run again himself, and the blame that Trump's most loyal supporters ascribe to Pence for failing to overturn the election.
  — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
• And unlike other cultures, the Bhutan people don’t ascribe to the idea that there can only be one leader, says DeSantis.
  — Rob Dube, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Perhaps the small proportion of people that don’t ascribe to stereotypes of boringness are right.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
• Far from fading away, Trump himself is doing his best to see to it that Republicans ascribe to his falsehoods.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2022
• Many don't ascribe to the belief held by many of their parents and grandparents that emotional pain is better endured than processed.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2021
• These stocks are especially sensitive to changes in bond yields, because much of the value investors ascribe to them is based on far-off future profits.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
• On the one hand, this doesn’t really matter, because Freaks and Geeks doesn’t ascribe to a particularly regimented idea of high school in terms of class year.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
• Major tech stocks are especially sensitive to changes in bond yields, which affect the values that investors ascribe to far-off future profits.
  — Will Horner, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
• These guys still ascribe to the company-union philosophy (where company and union are business partners).
  — Tom Kertscher, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
• O’Neill’s willingness to ascribe to humor some of Trump’s more controversial actions is almost boundless, and often comes off as good-natured, even gracious.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• Both those who love and loathe Mr. Trump have tended to ascribe to him a sort of political superpower, assuming that gravity would never apply.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• Last year was a historically mild season, which many experts ascribe to the fact that people were wearing masks and social distancing, fewer people were traveling, and many schools were closed.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Oct. 2021
• Zimmer didn’t necessarily ascribe to the theory Cook was working too much after Sunday’s game, either.
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
• To call the film a debunking or a corrective would ascribe to it a level of knowledge that neither Bill Genovese nor director James Solomon, a screenwriter making a fine nonfiction filmmaking debut, claims to possess.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• But as her alternately thoughtful and impulsive actions remind us, terms like good and evil are much too reductive to ascribe to behavior so messily, recognizably human.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Paulson plays a YouTube meditation guru grappling with Covid-19, the political climate, and her family, who ascribe to rather different politics.
  — Roxane Gay, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2020
• Even in normal circumstances, suicides are impulsive, unpredictable and difficult to ascribe to specific causes.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• In this silence, anti-immigrant groups have co-opted the green messagingand started gaining public support from those who generally ascribe to environmental values.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
• But machine learning and algorithmic trading models don’t ascribe to human irrationality.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024