Thesaurus results for IMPUTES

imputes

verb

present tense third-person singular of impute

as in ascribes

to explain (something) as being the result of something else people often impute his silence to unfriendliness and not to the shyness it really represents

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Recent Examples of imputes That imputes a total cost of $566 million. — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for imputes

Verb

The effect was similar to the one writer Joan Morgan ascribes to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
One automatically ascribes fraud to results that are often predictable, even routine; the other dismisses legitimate concerns as conspiracy theories.

— Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

Definition of ascribes

Verb

Gretchen Palek, head of alternative at Blumhouse Television, attributes the show’s success to the careful and sensitive approach to telling these terrifying experiences while highlighting real-life universal anxieties.

— Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Hardy attributes much of the current state of voter apathy to the media’s focus on fraud and voter integrity.

— Heather LaMarre, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026