ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
was ascribing
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past progressiveof ascribe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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To the degree that El Chapo’s defense team had any case at all, it was that the prosecution was ascribing an outsized power to Guzmán that he did not in fact possess.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 13, 2019
“When we invested, the market was ascribing no value to the Nook business, which was absurd.”
From New York Times ● May 1, 2012
It was ascribing to her a power of thought and a mature wisdom which fitted neither with her age nor with her character.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
