All 4 Uses of
attribute
in
Seabiscuit by Hillenbrand
- Falling into a severe depression attributed to his taking constant doses of purgatives to fight a weight problem he could not beat, he shot himself to death at age twenty-nine.
Chpt 1.5 *attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- Otis had praised Pollard in print since his initial condemnation of his ride in the Santa Anita Handicap, even suggesting that he may have been wrong in attributing the loss to the jockey.†
Chpt 2.9
- Howard had shrugged off the slow early fractions, attributing them to the difficulty of accelerating under 133 pounds, but Smith was uneasy.†
Chpt 2.13
- The next morning, papers across the nation ran the workout time, which was slow, and attributed it to Seabiscuit.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(attribute as in: I attribute it to...) to credit (a source for something)in two typical senses:
- "I attribute it to her work." -- to say who or what made something happen
- "Remember to attribute any quotations in your paper." -- indicate the source of a quotation or idea