Sample Sentences for
impute
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    She is too quick to generalize and impute personality traits based upon stereotypes.
    impute = attribute
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    The court did not impute fault on either party.
    impute = attribute or assign
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    We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heart that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter—the letter A—marked out in lines of dull red light.  (source)
    impute = attribute (think this was caused by)
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    What he wanted to say was stronger in him when he was alone; and though he imputed to Max the feelings he wanted to grasp, he could not talk of them to Max until he had forgotten Max's presence.  (source)
    imputed = attributed (something as a characteristic of someone)
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    Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.  (source)
    imputation = the act of attributing a characteristic to someone
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I have thought up a horrible dream to impute to Hrothgar.†  (source)
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    I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations which evil-minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself, and thereby run the hazard of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother slave might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery.†  (source)
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    Naturally, I felt the temptation to deny immediately and unambiguously such motivations as my employer was imputing to me, but saw in time that to do so could be to rise to Mr Farraday's bait, and the situation would only become increasingly embarrassing.  (source)
    imputing = attributing
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    And consider all that he imputes to "man"!†  (source)
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    No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She imputeth" in older English, today we say "She imputes."
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    Imputest thou that to my default, or will Of wandering, as thou callest it, which who knows But might as ill have happened thou being by, Or to thyself perhaps?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou imputest" in older English, today we say "You impute."
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    It could only be imputed to increasing attachment.  (source)
    imputed = attributed (thought to be caused due to)
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