ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
has ascribed
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present perfectof ascribe (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Hamilton has ascribed his improvement in form after a difficult 2025 to "a change of attitude".
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
“But she does it with such heart. I think that Maria has ascribed to the fact that you can only hate what you love. I think that’s definitely tattooed somewhere on Bernadette’s body.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
The learned Eusebius has ascribed the faith of Constantine to the miraculous sign which was displayed in the heavens whilst he meditated and prepared the Italian expedition.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
To the one it has ascribed felicity and affluence; to the other hardship and want.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man by Moncure Daniel Conway
I know not if the melancholy flower which in Germany we call the passion-flower is known by the same name in France, and if the popular tradition has ascribed to it the same mystical origin.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
