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 Ulster Presbyterians, or "Scotch-Irish," to whom history has ascribed the dominant role among the pioneer folk of the Old Southwest, began their migrations to America in the latter years of the seventeenth century.
From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Almost universal testimony has ascribed to him the purest and most beneficent character of any Eastern monarch.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
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
