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Six example sentences with impute, each labelled with its topic.
Analysts impute most of the quarter's gain to a single currency swing rather than to anything the managers actually did.
Finance
Founders often impute a competitor's growth to a clever ad campaign when a distribution deal was quietly doing the work.
Startups
We tend to impute a stranger's rudeness to character and our own to a bad night, which the literature calls asymmetry.
Psychology
The law can impute an employee's negligence to the employer, so the firm answers for the driver's mistake.
Law
Economists impute a rent to owner-occupied homes, counting the value of living in a house you own as income.
Economics
Chroniclers impute the famine to the king's sins, while modern historians point to three wet summers in a row.
History
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