How to Use attribution in a Sentence

attribution

noun

• This area of study—known as attribution science—is a relatively new but growing field.
  — Scott Waldman, Science | AAAS, 22 Sep. 2020
• In Iowa, Biden had used a British politician's words without attribution.
  — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Coaches, speaking without attribution to media, have floated a timeline of six weeks or even eight weeks in some cases.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
• Navarro's divine attribution for the origin of executive orders was mocked by many on social media.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2020
• But in the case of climate change, where attribution is murkier than an oil spill, this strategy hasn’t yet proven successful with other prosecutors.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2020
• No subject line, just a link to an essay about Damien Hirst’s use of an Ife sculpture without attribution in his Venice show.
  — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• That’s the most direct attribution of blame for the poisoning from the U.S. government since Navalny fell ill last month.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2020
• There is solid social science about the attribution of credibility increasing with details.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2024
• Since then other social networks and researchers have gathered more examples of the actor's activity and reinforced the attribution.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 16 June 2020
• Though there is no attribution for the attack, the weapon and the target fit the pattern of attacks linked to Iran in the past.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
• Of the other works, two were removed from the marketplace and the attribution changed on the third.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• But the painting didn’t look like a forgery, or a case of mistaken attribution.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Swayze plays a man killed in a mugging who returns as a spirit to Romans, the love of his life (Moore), and seeks attribution for his death.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The attribution to Vermeer was fully confirmed, but here too there was a surprise — this time on the style and dating.
  — Martin Bailey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• The feature will work in the FaceTime app, too—with the addition of speaker attribution.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• Kaspersky’s attribution is based on the overlap of code used by the two groups and victims targeted.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 June 2022
• They may be used, with attribution, to represent the position of Beijing and its claim to the island.
  — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• This sort of dubious attribution of motive is rather too frequent in the book.
  — Nicholas Kenyon, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
• Like many terms that originate in the canon of Black art and thought, self-care has been swallowed into a vortex of mainstream overuse and lack of attribution.
  — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
• Among the vagaries that make the art world such a compelling, if risky, marketplace is the fact that a change in attribution can sink the value of one work, or swell the value of another.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• The false Voltaire attribution for the quote has circulated online for years.
  — Daniel Dale, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
• After some back and forth, the trio convinced themselves that reporters had heard Biden use the language before—with attribution—and would give him the benefit of the doubt.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 24 June 2024
• In years past, attribution studies could take months to complete.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2020
• This article has been updated to correct the attribution of a quote from Sen. Chris West.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
• There’s also a question of whether the attribution would stick if someone cut and pasted text from a tool like ChatGPT.
  — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 23 May 2023
• There may be among these works as many great paintings and sculptures with no attribution as there are great works firmly attributed to known artists.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
• Rose’s initial complaint—that her paintings were, over time, being changed—was of course wrong in its attribution but at some level right.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Unprecedented, too, were the methods of case and death attribution, which fed a campaign to frighten the public.
  — Kevin Roche, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• Beryl’s blow to Jamaica was worsened by climate change, a new rapid attribution analysis from ClimaMeter found.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 6 July 2024
• The big picture: Gross believes this type of attribution system can pave the way for publishers to demand fair value for their work from any generative AI company.
  — Sara Fischer, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024