How to Use attribution in a Sentence

attribution

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  • Though there is no attribution for the attack, the weapon and the target fit the pattern of attacks linked to Iran in the past.
    — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • But the painting didn’t look like a forgery, or a case of mistaken attribution.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Swayze plays a man killed in a mugging who returns as a spirit to Romans, the love of his life (Moore), and seeks attribution for his death.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The attribution to Vermeer was fully confirmed, but here too there was a surprise — this time on the style and dating.
    — Martin Bailey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The feature will work in the FaceTime app, too—with the addition of speaker attribution.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Kaspersky’s attribution is based on the overlap of code used by the two groups and victims targeted.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 June 2022
  • They may be used, with attribution, to represent the position of Beijing and its claim to the island.
    — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Like many terms that originate in the canon of Black art and thought, self-care has been swallowed into a vortex of mainstream overuse and lack of attribution.
    — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Among the vagaries that make the art world such a compelling, if risky, marketplace is the fact that a change in attribution can sink the value of one work, or swell the value of another.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • The false Voltaire attribution for the quote has circulated online for years.
    — Daniel Dale, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
  • This article has been updated to correct the attribution of a quote from Sen. Chris West.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There’s also a question of whether the attribution would stick if someone cut and pasted text from a tool like ChatGPT.
    — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 23 May 2023
  • There may be among these works as many great paintings and sculptures with no attribution as there are great works firmly attributed to known artists.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Rose’s initial complaint—that her paintings were, over time, being changed—was of course wrong in its attribution but at some level right.
    — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Adjei and Boyd said the attribution will not affect the algorithm, which determines what posts are in a user's feed.
    — NBC News, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Such claims resurged with the widespread and false attribution of images from the Borough Park scene as activity at the Chabad headquarters.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Greater care should have been taken to give credit where due, such as by providing an attribution for the cover image.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The only way for readers to learn that technology was involved in the writing was to click on that author attribution.
    — David Bauder, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But for Swain, there are real risks to these false negatives in attribution science.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 15 Dec. 2021
  • People who are involved in the attribution effort describe it as the most challenging work of their careers.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • And, of course, using A.I. language models to answer search queries raises a litany of thorny questions about copyright, attribution and bias.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Many produce thousands of words a day for a variety of clients without attribution.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • This version corrects the attribution of the quote about closure to Chief Randy Ermineskin.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 23 July 2022
  • The purported Hallie Biden tweet is also false – in both its content and attribution.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
  • TikTok is rolling out new tools to encourage users to give creators proper credit and attribution for their work.
    — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 18 May 2022
  • The companies said the answers to queries will include attribution and links to the original articles.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Still, it was shared more than 7,000 times, including by many believing the attribution was correct.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Though the parures are believed to have been owned by Josephine, no surviving paperwork supports this attribution.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Modern scholars dismiss an attribution to Paionios, who made the statue of Nike at nearby Olympia, and detect the hands of at least three sculptors.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The crux of the contention among commentators, though, lies in whether the crowd was truly violent—an attribution that has faced resistance.
    — Hawa Allan, Time, 7 Jan. 2022

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