ascribe

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ascribe, each labelled with its topic.

• Later chroniclers ascribed the victory to a single general, though the campaign orders show four commanders sharing the planning.

  History

• The panel was long ascribed to a pupil, until infrared imaging revealed the master's own underdrawing beneath the paint.

  Art

• People ascribe a stranger's rudeness to character and their own to circumstance, a bias measured in dozens of studies.

  Psychology

• Early doctors would ascribe the fever to bad air, decades before anyone had seen the bacterium under a microscope.

  Science

• Economists ascribe most of the wage gap between the two regions to differences in schooling rather than to industry.

  Economics

• The clinic was quick to ascribe her dizziness to stress, and the real cause, a thyroid problem, went unnoticed for a year.

  Medicine

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains ascribe. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

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• cadaver
• aberration
• anachronism
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• antler
• capitulate
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