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How to use attributing in a sentence

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Ryley didn't think too much of it, attributing the changes to the fact that he was becoming acclimated to his new surroundings.
Projection, a psychological defense mechanism, consists of attributing to others those attitudes and motives that we ourselves harbor.
Other potential causes of peripheral neuropathy were excluded before attributing the peripheral neuropathy to diabetes.
Many early travellers in Sinai were both enchanted and challenged by the inscriptions, some attributing them to the Hebrews of the Exodus.
Vietnamese also honor reserve and modesty, attributing loudness and brashness to immaturity and vulgarity.
Research with animal behavior, and perhaps especially with the great apes, risks wrongly attributing human characteristics to animals.
I go on to identify those particular areas without attributing sweepingly negative personal characteristics to any of them.
I fought my feelings back, attributing them to pregnancy hormones making me easily moody.
But attributing the differences in exilic experiences to variations of leadership is not satisfying.
They regard others with suspicion, attributing ulterior motives to the most innocent behaviour.
Willfully to misinterpret a text is akin to attributing an action to the author that he did not commit.
The family discord has been in progress for about two weeks, said the man, attributing it, in part, to the laxness of previous discipline.
When apologising for his remark, he also attempted to justify it by attributing the comment to a friend whose son had taken his own life.
Allen gave both teams full credit for their victories, attributing their success to the skill, confidence and commitment of the team members.
When exposed to parental conflict, adolescents make cognitive appraisals, evaluating the threat of the conflict and attributing blame.
All stories attributing the ending of slavery to Lincoln should be regarded as apocryphal, a mere creation of pro-Lincoln civil rights forces.
A distinction must be drawn between decisions on attributing rights of access and decisions on organizing their exercise.
A very cautious reasoner may take this to be a reason to be skeptical about attributing other typical properties of birds to penguins.
But this warped swindler made a big mistake in attributing to me an address which I did not own!
A small number of scholars reject the hypothesis, attributing similarities rather to borrowings and areal convergence.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But these are my own reflections and I am by no means sure that I am right in attributing them to him.
The evidence, however, for attributing all the Johannine books to the son of Zebedee is exceedingly strong.
You may persist, if you will, in attributing to me wrongs I never inflicted.
Their sudden action did not escape the soldier, who, attributing it to another cause, also hastily quitted the cantina.
I think this is attributing to clavus rather too much original thought, of which his maps and text do not otherwise give evidence.
Yes, perhaps, but only by attributing to us unknown and supernormal faculties.
Sterne anticipated this paradoxist in attributing glassiness to an inferior planet.
This she did not comprehend, attributing her incomprehension to his incoherence.
In attributing the drop, Viren brushed aside recent reports of ocean water contaminated by sewage.
We are, however, attributing too much to this formidable power.
I did not heed the threat at the time, attributing it to temper.
Nor is the abuse all true, in attributing to him motives so low.
Paul was not long in attributing this change to its real cause.
Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
Hamoto stresses the huge popularity of the monkey during the Old Babylonian period and is surely right in attributing this to the Amorites.
Is he simply demonstrating the entanglements that are caused by the prevaricator don Garcia without ever attributing judgment?
And there was Don Quixote observing all these strange proceedings attentively without uttering a word, and attributing the whole to chimeras of knight-errantry.
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