The phrase "attributed to something else" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the origin or cause of a particular idea, action, or phenomenon that is believed to be derived from another source.
Example: "The success of the project was largely attributed to something else, namely the team's innovative approach to problem-solving."
Alternatives: "ascribed to another source" or "credited to a different factor".
"A lot of parents probably don't want to own up to it, so their children's deaths are attributed to something else".
Is the height of a man a reality in the same sense in which he is a reality, or is it just an aspect of something more concrete, a mere quality that has derivative rather than substantial being and could not exist except as attributed to something else?
I used to say that the most important book in modern social science, post-World War II social science, was Feller's book, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications ( 1957) because he laid out all of the ways in which stochastic processes generate results that you would certainly think must have been attributed to something else.
One of the reasons people might hold the view that cannabis is safer is because the withdrawal syndrome is kind of non-specific and could easily be attributed to something else, said Juurlink.
New research shows most of us only cop to failures if they can't be attributed to something – or someone – else.
In a short introduction to the present volume, the playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange stresses the homoerotic strand in Clare's desire for Irene's company, though Irene herself attributes it to something else.
I am always trying to figure out why I feel that way or attribute it to something else.
Often they did not know why they were grieving or feeling guilty, sometimes because they had been told that they shouldn't and had attributed their pain to something else.
These results indicate that some cancer patients did attribute their initial symptoms to cancer, but other patients attribute their symptoms to something else; this applies both to patients with specific and non-specific symptoms.
Many participants reported lengthy diagnosis trajectories, and being treated for individual symptoms (e.g. pain) rather than JHS: we've all been passed from pillar to post where people don't recognise it or they just attribute a pain to something else, when a snap kind of diagnosis just comes out of the air and you know, you progress from there (Female G, age 45, FG3).
Colleagues attributed outward signs of dejection to something else: the death of his younger son, Alan, in a plane crash in 1970.
