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Eurasia Group is one of the world’s leading geopolitical risk consultancies and it ascribes a two-thirds probability to the pause in hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz holding.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Today, MS ascribes no value to Resolution in its base case for either company, Anand says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

What is important is that he is able to convince fanatic followers of the sacred mission he ascribes to himself as well as to them.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

"It bears noting that the court has never taken the position the defence ascribes to it: that former 'President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned,'" Judge Chutkan wrote.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

But all the excellence that Jacob ascribes to Reuben serves only to embitter the doom pronounced upon him.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus