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- noun Plural form of
imputation .
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Examples
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I took occasion to advert to what had excited the strongest feelings in my own mind, and in the minds of our people generally -- namely imputations on our loyalty to the
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Palmerston as withdrawing his "imputations" but stating plainly that he would not again submit "to entertain any similar correspondence [643]."
Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Racing is sharing in a collective dream sequence: a horse, named to be great after iconic US trainer Bobby Frankel, fulfilling and exceeding those imputations.
Frankel has potential to justify claims of greatness | Lydia Hislop 2011
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As an aside, how much of the decrease in progressivity comes from greater breadth of stock ownership -- if more people own stock, then more people are imputed to be be paying corporate income taxes -- not that such imputations have anything to do with actual tax incidence?
The Distribution of Tax Burdens, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Citationless imputations of the will of the Founders?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional” 2010
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Along with the loss of a friend's healthy infant in a major London hospital, attributed to midwife error, it was these imputations of clinician risk-management that first suggested to me that an elective caesarean might offer better survival odds, for the baby, than nature.
Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett 2011
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The need to resort to imputations of bad faith is not the sign of a strong argument.
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Citationless imputations of the will of the Founders?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional” 2010
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The need to resort to imputations of bad faith is not the sign of a strong argument.
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Some of what I saw in Pennsylvania forced me to acknowledge that imputations of racism among Clinton supporters were as warranted as my own attribution of misogynistic impulses to some Obama voters.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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