The phrase "attributed to the thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the source or origin of a particular quality, characteristic, or action that is linked to an object or concept.
Example: "The success of the project can be attributed to the thing that motivated the team to work harder."
Alternatives: "ascribed to the thing" or "credited to the thing".
If thinking that something is good or right is a matter of attributing to the thing some natural property or other, then what explains the apparently distinctive nature of moral thought?
And when the Wedge goes off, it gets big". The wave's freakish size breaking so close to shore can be attributed to the single thing that so routinely and obliviously messes with Mother Nature: man.
P1 and P2 are both attributed to the same thing, the gas (Gillett 2002, 2003).
This type of division of labour between men and women is quite common and can be attributed to the way things were historically divided, where the men would stay in the mountains with the sheep and the women would sell the cheeses in the nearby markets.
Much of the initial burst of activity, of course, can be attributed to the novelty of the thing.
It's pretty scary when you think about it, 75% of the Jeopardy win can be attributed to the fact that the thing can simply push the button faster.
"I don't think we are the only ones interested in troubling Iran, and sometimes things are attributed to the usual suspects when it isn't necessarily so".
That's not to mention how being curious and learning new things has attributed to the success of numerous moguls, including Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey.
His later years were taken up with the study of the contributions that life processes make to the atmosphere, and he correctly attributed to living things the creation of the oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere.
THE gaping political rift between Iran and the West can be attributed to many things, from the fiery rhetoric of the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the geopolitics of oil.
