Sentence examples for attributed to someone from inspiring English sources

News that someone called Kadz Islam had been killed in Gaza appeared to emanate from a Facebook page attributed to someone of the same name.

— London Magazine, 1966 This article was amended on 17 October 2016 to correct an error by which Vashti Bunyan's response had been attributed to someone else.

It's being talked over in a group setting, over and over again, or having your idea attributed to someone else (more often than not a man).

There were reports attributed to someone close to the acting commissioner saying he didn't support the arrests, claims that "really troubled me".

Contemplating denial, Freud talked about "minimisation", in which a fact is admitted but its seriousness denied, and "projection", in which repressed thoughts are attributed to someone else.

To be on the safe side, he said, dealers and auctioneers could make clear in the future that all the dates and verification in their catalogs are attributed to someone else.

You write about research that shows the importance of first impressions and how the qualities we initially attribute to someone can stick despite evidence contradicting that initial impression.

Like most Shakespeare scholars, I am delighted to attribute to someone else the dreary 578-line "Funeral Elegy" that Prof. Donald Foster's computer program had mistakenly assigned to Shakespeare ("A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery," Arts pages, June 20).

New research shows most of us only cop to failures if they can't be attributed to something – or someone – else.

The effect is perhaps best described in the many positive attributes we ascribe to someone we find attractive.

Someone — it's been attributed to everyone from Dostoyevsky to John Gardner — once said there are only two possible stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.