impute
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- v attribute or credit to
People impute great cleverness to cats - v attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
- Those who impute to Obama radical views about AIDS, Israel or black nationalism are knowingly discounting his stated positions and making assumptions that may be influenced by his .
- Critics were quick to ask how the researchers could impute causality when no actual TV watching was ever measured.
- Is it all about oil, a motive many impute to President Bush but which could equally apply to France's lucrative Iraqi ties? Or does Chirac really have a better plan for dealing .