Meaning & use
Attributing
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Regarding something as being caused by, produced by, or belonging to a particular person, thing, or source.
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The historian is attributing the painting to a lesser-known student of Rembrandt.
She kept attributing her success to luck rather than hard work.
A note on using this word
Comes from the Latin 'attribuere,' meaning to assign or bestow; used whenever a cause, quality, or work is traced back to its source.
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