How to Use attribution in a Sentence

attribution

noun

• Many did so not for attribution, but some went on the record.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Huette was the only one who agreed to speak for attribution.
  — Charlotte Huff, Kaiser Health News, 29 June 2017
• Knowing about the times in which these men lived helps find attributions that don't make sense.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
• The Union-Tribune has chosen to use the word with attribution in news stories.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
• Three spoke on the record with attribution, while one source spoke on the condition of anonymity.
  — Joshua Stewart, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• Many countries bestow creators with a right of attribution and the right to the integrity of their work.
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
• 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
• This story corrects the name of the Macmillan president, the title of a book by Julissa Arce and the attribution of a quote.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
• While the debate over proper attribution raged, Stewart kept her eyes on the prize.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 17 June 2019
• 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
• Even now, no woman who worked through a recruiter would speak for attribution for fear of losing her job.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Just what this attribution means as far as policy goes is not clear.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
• 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
• And then the attribution and punishment for the malware that raced through Europe and did tens of billions of dollars in damage.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Iowa, Biden had used a British politician's words without attribution.
  — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• A few weeks ago, the same research group conducted a rapid attribution study on an earlier heat wave, which struck parts of Europe at the end of June.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• 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 flap has gripped Britain’s theater world, where open disputes about authorship and attribution are rare.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 July 2019
• Rennie's blog post offered no on-the-record attribution for his report.
  — Courant Staff Report, courant.com, 30 May 2017
• Earlier this year, Forbes threatened legal action against the AI firm for ripping off its work without attribution.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
• This story has been updated to clarify attribution from Crisis Text Line.
  — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025