How to Use attribution in a Sentence

attribution

noun
  • Knowing about the times in which these men lived helps find attributions that don't make sense.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Just what this attribution means as far as policy goes is not clear.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Three spoke on the record with attribution, while one source spoke on the condition of anonymity.
    Joshua Stewart, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • That attribution piece is very difficult to come by and where many class action suits stumble.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The attribution of stock options dented Snap’s bottom line.
    Georgia Wells, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Goodess said more work is needed to improve the attribution of these observations to climate change, a point on which the authors of the report agree.
    Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Most of those attributions stand uncontested by scholars today - a tribute to the earlier scholar's eye.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 23 July 2017
  • The effort is part of the growing field of climate change attribution, which explores connections between warming and weather events that have already happened.
    Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich, New York Times, 14 Dec. 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
  • His quick attribution of attacks in London to Islamist terrorism have earned him rebukes from British officials.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The Union-Tribune has chosen to use the word with attribution in news stories.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, the customer journey is more fragmented and harder to measure, with traditional attribution methods failing.
    Nicholas Holland, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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