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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps the small proportion of people that don’t ascribe to stereotypes of boringness are right.
—Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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These guys still ascribe to the company-union philosophy (where company and union are business partners).
—Tom Kertscher, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Even in normal circumstances, suicides are impulsive, unpredictable and difficult to ascribe to specific causes.
—New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
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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
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But machine learning and algorithmic trading models don’t ascribe to human irrationality.
—Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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