Like Kurtz’s work, the UCSF paper turned heads by ascribing memory-like properties to simple immune cells that lack the diverse antigen receptors of B and T cells.
‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus|Esther Landhuis|September 14, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Different boycotters will ascribe different meanings to the same act.
What Does the ASA Boycott Mean? They Don’t Know.|Jay Michaelson|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Yet neither expressed any interest in the legend that so many people want to ascribe to the man.
The Bin Laden of His Day? A New Biography of Geronimo|Marc Wortman|December 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
To the contrary, they ascribe to the belief that more guns on campus, in the hands of the right people, will make them safer.
141st Annual Meeting: NRA Gets in Touch With Its Feminine Side|Michael Ames|April 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
All they have to do is attribute or ascribe as much income as possible to foreign subsidiaries.
15 Top Corporate Tax Dodgers|The Daily Beast|March 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST
What drives the human impulse to ascribe divine meaning to tragic events?
This Week's Must-Read Journalism|The Daily Beast|March 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It is the custom of all primitive people to ascribe their early laws and government to divine origin.
The World's Progress, Vol. I (of X)|Various
I ascribe this to Gods blessing, through the instrumentality of early rising, and plunging my head into cold water when I rise.
The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Mller|George Mller
I acknowledge all the merit of the hymn of Cleanthes to Jupiter, which you ascribe to it.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson
We ascribe them to the error of mixing up the permanent principles of Christianity with its temporary institutions.
The Essential Faith of the Universal Church|Harriet Martineau
There can be no more reason to doubt that fact than to ascribe it to a miracle.
The Hermits|Charles Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for ascribe
ascribe
/ (əˈskraɪb) /
verb(tr)
to credit or assign, as to a particular origin or periodto ascribe parts of a play to Shakespeare
to attribute as a quality; consider as belonging toto ascribe beauty to youth
Derived forms of ascribe
ascribable, adjective
Word Origin for ascribe
C15: from Latin ascrībere to enrol, from ad in addition + scrībere to write
usage for ascribe
Ascribe is sometimes wrongly used where subscribe is meant: I do not subscribe (not ascribe) to this view