Example Sentences

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Chief Executive Michael Bender called the result Kohl’s best comparable-sales performance in over four years, attributing the moderate decline to ongoing efforts to improve the business.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The Trust is cautious about attributing the changes directly to climate change at a single site.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Chopra responded, “Nothing human is foreign to me,” attributing that to a “Roman poet whose name I forget.”

From Salon • May 19, 2026

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins reported on air that the armed suspect was killed by the Secret Service, attributing it to security for Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

However, a veterinarian in Bainbridge, Georgia, Dr. Otis L. Poitevint, who was called upon to treat many of the affected animals, has summarized his reasons for attributing the deaths to the insecticide as follows.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson