was attributing
- past progressive of attribute.
Example Sentences
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Real footage is overlaid with a deepfake impersonation of the food writer's voice, making it sound like she was attributing her success directly to Wesley Virgin's guidance.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024
“The voice in myself was attributing to her the traits I couldn’t look at in myself,” said Zweig, who was in her late 60s at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
People were concerned that he was attributing cognitive complexity to animals that they couldn’t possibly have.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 18, 2017
I did not see myself as someone who leaned back, but here I was, attributing my fellowship to everyone else and completely anxious about my future job and an imaginary baby.
From Nature ● Oct. 23, 2013
For days thereafter he was from time to time seized with violent spasms of trembling; years afterward he was attributing premature weaknesses of old age to the effects of that moment of horror.
From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham
