How to Use ascribe in a Sentence

ascribe

verb
Definition of ascribenext
Synonyms for ascribenext
  • Some of this is due to our need to ascribe names to new and different creatures.
    — Bob Humphrey, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Too many of us ascribe the worst motives to anyone who does not agree with 100% of our beliefs.
    — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Those castoff receivers—they, too, want to rethink labels, like the ones ascribed to this city for so long.
    — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • People too easily ascribe a mind like their own to all sorts of things, from pets to pet rocks.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 June 2022
  • That’s a lot of weight to ascribe to a narrow victory over a winless Atlanta team in Week Two.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Again, this is ascribed to the quality of data being used.
    — Adrian Swinscoe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Can meaning be ascribed to the random meetings of kindred souls?
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Fast forward about 400 years, and people had started to ascribe meaning to the tarot card symbols.
    — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 28 Jan. 2021
  • As to what Downey is ascribing to his native land, Murphy can do nothing but laugh.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But the outlook is far from being as gloomy as the market is ascribing to these companies.
    — Thomas Heath, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The average consumer might ascribe the declining price to a variant of Moore’s law.
    — Ashwin Rodrigues, Fortune, 21 July 2019
  • Hezbollah ascribes to the Shia branch like Iran, so has longer-running ties to the Islamic Republic.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • They are embedded in the day-to-day work, ascribe to the company culture and understand the status quo.
    — Erik Huberman, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Lawyers from both sides are loath to ascribe partisan motives to sitting judges.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The end result is that many people are eager to ascribe mindedness to pieces of machinery and bits of code.
    — Eleanor Cummins, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Trump could run again himself, and the blame that Trump's most loyal supporters ascribe to Pence for failing to overturn the election.
    — Michael Warren, CNN, 24 June 2021
  • And to the people who ascribe meaning to credit-card design: MoviePass is ditching the red debit cards in favor of a sleek black design.
    — Vulture, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Slide down singing sand dunes in Kazakhstan Marco Polo ascribed the boom of sand dunes to mischievous spirits creating music with the beat of drums and the clash of arms.
    — Trevor Cox, National Geographic, 31 July 2019
  • Last year, Poland passed a law making it a criminal offense to ascribe blame for Nazi atrocities to Poles or Poland.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The defendants ascribe losses by the account holders to the broad downturn in crypto prices during 2022, not bad advice from Cuban and the team.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • The Washers say many in town have ascribed motivations to their actions that simply aren’t there.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Over the years, this remarkable painting has been ascribed to different artists.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Photographers on the White House beat are careful not to ascribe meaning to their pictures.
    — Julius Constantine Motal, NBC news, 15 June 2020
  • Bradish and McCann both ascribed the troubles in 0-2 counts to the inability to induce as many whiffs as Bradish normally does.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2023
  • The current run of fan ugliness is difficult to ascribe to one factor.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • However, the restaurant scene in the center of the country boasts a lot more than the stereotypical dishes often ascribed to it.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Bronstein and his client await a decision in which the judge will ascribe the value to the marital estate, including the watches.
    — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • And unlike other cultures, the Bhutan people don’t ascribe to the idea that there can only be one leader, says DeSantis.
    — Rob Dube, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Gorsuch just hasn’t been Kagan’s colleague for long enough to ascribe his recent votes to her influence.
    — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Perhaps the small proportion of people that don’t ascribe to stereotypes of boringness are right.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022

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