attributes
Americannoun
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He attributes much of his personal and professional success to the people he grew up with.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
By defining these perceptual attributes more rigorously, the researchers have supplied a missing piece in Schrödinger's long standing vision for a closed mathematical model of color.
From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026
He attributes much of that bliss to his marriage to Schmidt, an art curator, writer and photographer whom he wed in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
He attributes the potential recovery to the restart of the subsidiary’s Oswego aluminum plant, which should boost volumes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
One trouble with this view is that it attributes to biology and medicine a much greater store of usable information, with coherence and connectedness, than actually exists.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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