ascribe
verb (used with object)
to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.
were 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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But defense lawyers responded that the Ituri conflict had not had the ethnic character prosecutors were ascribing to it.
From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2014
They naturally were ascribing their terrors to him.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Hulbert Footner
