attribute
verb (used with object)
to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed byto ).
are attributing
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present progressiveof attribute.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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The implication being that some companies are attributing layoffs to better tech when it is really just cost-cutting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ordinary experiences, imperfections, sadness, and anxieties are increasingly given the imprimatur of medical disorders, she concludes: “In other words: we are not getting sicker — we are attributing more to sickness.”
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Analysts are attributing the new party’s unexpected victory to its pledges to bring transparency, zero tolerance for corruption and reforms to key sectors.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
Officials are attributing the rise in coronavirus cases to the virus’ spread among unvaccinated people in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2021
For in thus attributing a special and startling degree of intellect and conversational or controversial power to the upper classes, we are attributing something which is not especially their virtue or even especially their aim.
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
