ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
is ascribing
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present progressiveof ascribe (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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As to what Downey is ascribing to his native land, Murphy can do nothing but laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
“But the outlook is far from being as gloomy as the market is ascribing to these companies. There may be some complacency.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
Mr. Toobin added: “I think what I am guilty of is ascribing too much importance to oral argument, period. “The justices all say the briefs matter a great deal more than oral arguments.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2016
Such is the eternal squabbling between critic and artist, in which the latter thinks the former is ascribing intentionality or narrative to a medium that either doesn’t require or actively resists it.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2016
This is ascribing a weight to our opinions, to which they are not entitled.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
