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ascribe

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This is exactly why i stopped reading boingboing; there's a tendency to ascribe meaning to actions that just isn't there.

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Quick take

attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ascribe.

verb

attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

See also: impute, assign, attribute

Example sentences

1

This is exactly why i stopped reading boingboing; there's a tendency to ascribe meaning to actions that just isn't there.

2

Never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to incompetence.

3

I am not a Godaddy fan by any means, but I'm finding it difficult to ascribe blame to them for this incident.

4

A lot like how people ascribe religious significants to events they don't understand.

5

I would like to ascribe it to turning myself around and working hard, but the fact of the matter is that privilege played a huge role.

6

It's sometime tempting to ascribe that to language itself, but it's not inherent to the language -- it's circumstantial.

7

I am amazed by the tendency of social scientists to ascribe everything about that to social construction.

8

You have to take into consideration many factors and you can't just automatically ascribe declining or increasing revenues to one fact, even if it seems plausible.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use ascribe in a sentence?

This is exactly why i stopped reading boingboing; there's a tendency to ascribe meaning to actions that just isn't there.

What does ascribe mean?

attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

What part of speech is ascribe?

ascribe is commonly used as verb.