How to Use attribute (something) to (someone or something) in a Sentence

attribute (something) to (someone or something)

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• The killing was part of a series of violent crimes Dec. 21 that police attribute to Thompson.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• But Congress has struggled to pass spending bills in the years since, something many experts attribute to the absence of earmarks.
  — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
• Berberine also has a laxative effect, which could attribute to weight loss effects, but not long-term.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• But despite a surge in interest in the game that longtime players attribute to the pandemic, Atlanta has few places for pickleballers to play.
  — Riley Bunch, ajc, 3 July 2023
• The price is also a reflection of the medicinal value some people attribute to the bitter-tasting honey.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• Each birthstone is surrounded by a number of stories, legends, and myths that attribute to it a variety of meanings and powers.
  — Nina Derwin, Country Living, 6 Apr. 2023
• Committee Democrats also questioned the bill’s expansion of the three-strikes law, a relic of the state’s tough-on-crime past that many attribute to the wave of mass incarcerations that has filled up prisons.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Any kind of trauma, such as pelvic or low back injuries, can also attribute to dysfunction if not properly addressed.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Many of her songs contain synthetic-sounding vocal slips that a listener might attribute to Auto-Tune, but which Polachek achieves by flipping sharply between her head voice and her chest voice.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• Overdose deaths in Anchorage have nearly tripled since 2018, a spike state officials largely attribute to the prevalence of fentanyl, which counterfeit drugs are often laced with.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2022
• Other types and combinations of gases will be easier to detect but might be harder to definitively attribute to life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• The new law was prompted by the decadelong break, which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
  — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2022
• Men tend to have higher levels than women, which researchers attribute to menstruation helping eliminate the chemicals from the body.
  — Patricia Kime, Hannah Norman, Kff Health News, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Overdose deaths in Anchorage have nearly tripled since 2018, a spike that state officials largely attribute to the prevalence of fentanyl, an opioid many times stronger than heroin that’s often found in counterfeit drugs.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Both groups reported similar levels of depression and post-traumatic stress, which the authors attribute to the difficult conditions that lead some women to seek out abortions in the first place.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021
• Violence historically has spared the Edmondson-Westside campus, which some attribute to respect for the school and Perry.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
• To be clear, vacancies are still far lower here than many markets around the country, which economists attribute to the difficulty of building housing in California.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• In recent months, the port has attracted two new container services, which translates to 21 new ships, which officials attribute to congestion issues elsewhere.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• Influenza has been largely dormant the last two seasons, a development some attribute to the infection-prevention protocols put in place to ward off the coronavirus.
  — Jason Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
• Americans’ anxiety levels have ballooned during the two-plus years (and counting) of the pandemic, which experts attribute to my constant urge to not getting things done efficiently.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
• Often side effects will be gastrointestinal in nature — maybe a little nausea or diarrhea which consumers might attribute to other things.
  — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• Chinese President Xi Jinping is rewriting the rules in the world's second-largest economy — a dramatic upheaval he's attributed to a desire to close the wealth gap, but which experts also attribute to a desire for further control.
  — Selina Wang, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• Bargain hunters are swooping in to take advantage of prices in Trump buildings that have dropped to levels not seen in over a decade, a crash brokers attribute to a combination of the former president's polarizing image and the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 June 2021
• Even China, where consumers have flocked to affordable EVs, is expected to report slower adoption in 2024, which analysts attribute to an uncertain economy.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 24 Jan. 2024
• Much of the topographical-style imagery hanging there has frequently been dismissed as folk art, a superficial reading that many curators would attribute to colonial prejudice.
  — Mark C. O'Flaherty, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2023
• He’s just got this incredible attribute to remember everything.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
• But the hundreds of millions of Chinese seniors, who are most vulnerable to Covid, are also the least likely to be vaccinated — a reluctance experts attribute to misinformation in Chinese media.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Some analysts counter that imputed rents—the theoretical rent that statisticians attribute to owner-occupiers—simply track market rents and don’t show the true housing costs that result from rising property prices.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 19 June 2021
• Among them are states that stood by as the U.S.-led peace process collapsed and Palestinian suffering festered — a neglect that analysts attribute to a mix of hopelessness, antipathy to Palestinian leadership or a focus inward, on domestic concerns.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the aftermath of the ecological disaster, residents in East Palestine began experiencing symptoms that many attribute to the chemical spill.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024