Example Sentences

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Like Van Gogh’s brush work, Thomas’s imputes electricity or some other unseen energy to the whole of the universe.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021

“Leave of absence still imputes the financial interests of the firm to him.”

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2020

The bureau imputes the characteristics of a small number of households in every census.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2020

Finally, this worldview imputes motives to the media that just aren’t there.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2016

What is more important, he imputes to the Indians, a knowledge of the terrible West African itch, or craworaw, which he calls by the supposed Indian name caracaracol.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various