ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
are ascribing
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present progressiveof ascribe.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“People are ascribing other things to it,” Miserando, said, when real estate ownership “might be the bigger factor than the angle of how strange it is” to see a company going from Texas to California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The choices we make are inextricably connected to our influences and experiences in youth and there’s something worrying about the value, or lack of it, that you are ascribing to your own needs.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2019
More Americans are ascribing to vegan, or semi-vegan, diets and are looking for alternatives to dairy.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2018
Many commenters here are ascribing motives to the mother in the interaction but leaving the motives of the LW unexamined.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
Mr Bradley has worked out a theory according to which, in all judgment, we are ascribing a predicate to Reality as a whole; and this theory is derived from Hegel.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
