imputing

present participle of impute
as in ascribing
to explain (something) as being the result of something else people often impute his silence to unfriendliness and not to the shyness it really represents

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“Imputing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imputing. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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