How to Use attribute (something) to (someone or something) in a Sentence
attribute (something) to (someone or something)
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The killing was part of a series of violent crimes Dec. 21 that police attribute to Thompson.
— Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021 -
But Congress has struggled to pass spending bills in the years since, something many experts attribute to the absence of earmarks.
— Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021 -
The third revolution came in 2000, which researchers also attribute to the mainstream appeal of hip-hop.
— Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024 -
Berberine also has a laxative effect, which could attribute to weight loss effects, but not long-term.
— Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 June 2023 -
But despite a surge in interest in the game that longtime players attribute to the pandemic, Atlanta has few places for pickleballers to play.
— Riley Bunch, ajc, 3 July 2023 -
Between the lines: Utah's gender wage gap is famously one of the widest in the nation — something skeptics often attribute to the high number of moms who stop working full-time while their kids are young.
— Erin Alberty, Axios, 23 July 2024 -
The price is also a reflection of the medicinal value some people attribute to the bitter-tasting honey.
— María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022 -
Cannibalism is something most people attribute to the young.
— Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024 -
Run clubs have boomed in recent years — a trend many attribute to people turning to the sport during the pandemic and younger generations using them to make friends or find a partner.
— Sommer Brugal, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Each birthstone is surrounded by a number of stories, legends, and myths that attribute to it a variety of meanings and powers.
— Nina Derwin, Country Living, 6 Apr. 2023 -
Committee Democrats also questioned the bill’s expansion of the three-strikes law, a relic of the state’s tough-on-crime past that many attribute to the wave of mass incarcerations that has filled up prisons.
— Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Any kind of trauma, such as pelvic or low back injuries, can also attribute to dysfunction if not properly addressed.
— Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023 -
But the decline continues a trend that critics attribute to the state’s high cost of living, a pressing housing shortage and other issues that are prompting exits.
— Christian Wade | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 July 2024 -
The number of monarchs at the wintering sites in Mexico dropped by 59% this year, which experts attribute to extreme weather like heat and drought, pesticide use and habitat loss.
— Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2024 -
Many of her songs contain synthetic-sounding vocal slips that a listener might attribute to Auto-Tune, but which Polachek achieves by flipping sharply between her head voice and her chest voice.
— Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021 -
Overdose deaths in Anchorage have nearly tripled since 2018, a spike state officials largely attribute to the prevalence of fentanyl, which counterfeit drugs are often laced with.
— Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2022 -
Other types and combinations of gases will be easier to detect but might be harder to definitively attribute to life.
— Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021 -
The park is facing damages that are difficult to attribute to any one event, especially as events get closer together, according to Wales.
— Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024 -
The new law was prompted by the decadelong break, which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
— CBS News, 15 Apr. 2022 -
Democrats already believe that Trump lucked out in his first term in presiding over the economic growth that liberals attribute to President Barack Obama’s policies.
— Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 11 July 2024 -
Because of what historians attribute to an oversight, Wilson and Shadrach never received the award posthumously.
— Chris Boccia, ABC News, 3 July 2024 -
Those assumptions have been tested in recent decades, as a number of once-in-a-lifetime phenomena have occurred with a frequency too high to credibly attribute to pure chance.
— Alan Greenspan, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013 -
Men tend to have higher levels than women, which researchers attribute to menstruation helping eliminate the chemicals from the body.
— Patricia Kime, Hannah Norman, Kff Health News, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023 -
More New Yorkers have stopped paying their property taxes — a troubling trend since the onset of the pandemic that city officials attribute to the end of a tax-lien sales program that punishes delinquency.
— Martin Z. Braun, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Overdose deaths in Anchorage have nearly tripled since 2018, a spike that state officials largely attribute to the prevalence of fentanyl, an opioid many times stronger than heroin that’s often found in counterfeit drugs.
— Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023 -
Both groups reported similar levels of depression and post-traumatic stress, which the authors attribute to the difficult conditions that lead some women to seek out abortions in the first place.
— Sarah Todd, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021 -
The distinctive attributes our founding documents attribute to human beings — reason, free will, and moral choice — would be inconceivable in the absence of a Judeo-Christian worldview.
— Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024 -
Violence historically has spared the Edmondson-Westside campus, which some attribute to respect for the school and Perry.
— Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023 -
To be clear, vacancies are still far lower here than many markets around the country, which economists attribute to the difficulty of building housing in California.
— Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023 -
In recent months, the port has attracted two new container services, which translates to 21 new ships, which officials attribute to congestion issues elsewhere.
— Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2021
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