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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascribe.

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Examples

  • This is the one insight into psychical reality that Frankenstein ascribes to a female character.

    Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

  • He distinguishes it at any rate from the other "Flyting," which he definitely and by name ascribes to _Helgakviða_.

    Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

  • But I guess by your line of thinking, the legal system also "ascribes" innocence where guilt is unproven.

    On Tom Lukiwski ALW 2008

  • But I guess by your line of thinking, the legal system also "ascribes" innocence where guilt is unproven.

    On Tom Lukiwski ALW 2008

  • G. Whittier, in his "Songs of Three Centuries," ascribes "Love divine, all love excelling" to that bitter Calvinist, Augustus M. Toplady, giving it as the sole specimen of his verse; when it was really written by the ardent Arminian, Charles Wesley, with whom Toplady was on anything but friendly terms.

    Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul James Mudge 1881

  • It neither explains nor even ascribes motives to Mark Zuckerberg -- no vision, no strategy, no goals.

    Jeff Jarvis: The Antisocial Movie Jeff Jarvis 2010

  • Conventional wisdom ascribes a similar view to Woodrow Wilson.

    Andrew Levine: When the Leaders Speak of Human Rights Andrew Levine 2010

  • Conventional wisdom ascribes a similar view to Woodrow Wilson.

    Andrew Levine: When the Leaders Speak of Human Rights Andrew Levine 2010

  • "Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert," wrote the great economic historian R.H. Tawney in 1926.

    Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011

  • And he has promised that even if we do achieve whatever Orwellian definition he ascribes to “victory” in Afghanistan, there will be more countries to destabilize, invade and occupy in the future.

    So? What did you think? « Dating Jesus 2009

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