Sentence examples for ascribable from inspiring English sources

The word 'ascribable' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means able to be attributed or credited to someone or something. Example: The success of the project was ascribable to the hard work and dedication of the entire team.

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ascribable

adjective

Able to be ascribed.

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The development of a junior literature from 1865 to about 1920 is ascribable less to published books than to two remarkable children's magazines: The Youth's Companion (1827 1929, when it merged with The American Boy) and the relatively nondidactic St. Nicholas magazine (1873 1939), which exerted a powerful influence on its exclusively respectable child readers.

The Calvinistic tone of the Scottish Reformation was ascribable to John Knox, who became the leader of the Scottish Reformation.

However, this phenomenon is only partly ascribable to the general-purpose microprocessor, which accounts for about one-sixth of annual sales.

Once she had the coffee, she put a second paper cup around it, went out into the morning, and felt a minor wave of optimism, ascribable to either caffeine or the sunrise.

As a hunter, he further complains of dying trees, of disappearing browse and cover — changes no longer ascribable to nature but now quite obviously conceded to be under the control of the Corps.

All the same, there was a renewed vitality at City Ballet during Mr. Wheeldon's tenure, an energy ascribable to the climate of inspiration created by his unmistakable gifts.

The absence of criminal intent -- the intention -- does not rule out the guilt/responsibility that is ascribable to negligence, imprudence or even simply inexperience.

To be fair to Harry and Paul, some of the creakiness is ascribable to teething problems at this first performance of their tour.

It's not just the plot: a series of crimes – some ascribable, most anonymous – rumple the surface of a small town in northern Germany on the eve of the first world war.

Ascribable to this communal perspective, perhaps, are the sententious opinions that occasionally interrupt scenes, such as this about the Senguptas' maid: "the poor have a special ability, after all, to understand the torments of their employers, to empathise with them"; or when it is said of a flower arranger that she has "the efficient but somewhat provisional air of a working woman".

His attitude, said the interviewer, was ascribable to irritation at a photo shoot which had preceded filming.

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