apportion blame
Frequency: 4.52.1 per million words
to decide who is responsible for something
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- The inquiry's purpose is not to apportion blame, but to prevent future incidents.
- The judge carefully apportioned blame between the two drivers involved in the collision.
- In the aftermath of the financial crisis, it was difficult to apportion blame accurately.
- The team leader refused to apportion blame, instead encouraging everyone to work together on a fix.
- A public inquiry will be held to apportion blame for the catastrophic bridge collapse.
- Rather than apportioning blame, let's focus on what we can learn from our mistakes.
- The media was quick to apportion blame to the government for the slow response.
- It is a natural human tendency to try to apportion blame when things go wrong.
- The official report apportioned blame equally among the manufacturer, the regulator, and the operator.
- Before we apportion any blame, we need to gather all the facts.