attribute
verb (used with object)
to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed byto ).
is attributing
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present progressiveof attribute (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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Why is attributing divine but unfathomable purpose a necessary precondition for such actions?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022
Avoid stereotyping—that is, attributing positive or negative characteristics to people on the basis of groups to which they belong.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
"If this is truly what Mr. Bolton has written, then it seems he is attributing to Attorney General Barr his own current views — views with which Attorney General Barr does not agree."
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2020
“If this is truly what Mr. Bolton has written, then it seems he is attributing to Attorney General Barr his own current views — views with which Attorney General Barr does not agree.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2020
It is no easy thing to advise men; we have not even always a right to do so; for it is attributing to ourselves a certain superiority over them.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
