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  • verb Present participle of ascribe.

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Examples

  • On the other hand, Ohanian may be on firmer ground in ascribing the poor performance between 1935 and 1939 to high real wages resulting from New Deal policies.

    Outstanding Book, Standout Price, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • And the supremacy of that evaluation in ascribing greatness within that aesthetics implicitly establishes that the most important thing to be is important.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Surely the physical definition implicit in ascribing masculinity to the divine is a contradiction of omnipotence in and of itself.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • The point Boris makes in ascribing antiquated language to an endeavour of which he clearly disapproves.

    Racist Slur At Boris Newmania 2007

  • And the supremacy of that evaluation in ascribing greatness within that aesthetics implicitly establishes that the most important thing to be is important.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

  • Surely the physical definition implicit in ascribing masculinity to the divine is a contradiction of omnipotence in and of itself.

    A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

  • What really concerns me, though, is the palpable existence of another tradition, a rival tradition, an institutionalisation of constraint morality which in ascribing absolute ethical authority to God implicitly, or indeed explicitly, precludes the moral imperative to remake morality.

    The Heirs of Job Hal Duncan 2006

  • What really concerns me, though, is the palpable existence of another tradition, a rival tradition, an institutionalisation of constraint morality which in ascribing absolute ethical authority to God implicitly, or indeed explicitly, precludes the moral imperative to remake morality.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Capital, I would spend more than a passing sentence wondering whether Guillory is justified in ascribing the popularity of Gray's poetry to an

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • He was not alone in ascribing cultural arrogance to the Chinese.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

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