attribute blame
Frequency: 4.82.5 per million words
to say that someone is responsible for something
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Examples (10)
- The official report attributes the blame for the accident to pilot error.
- It's counterproductive to attribute blame before we have all the facts.
- The investigation's goal is not to attribute blame, but to prevent future incidents.
- The opposition was quick to attribute the blame for the economic downturn to the current government.
- In therapy, he learned to stop attributing blame to others for his own mistakes.
- For the data breach, blame was attributed to a third-party vendor with weak security.
- We must be careful not to unfairly attribute blame until the full inquiry is complete.
- While the media attributes the project's failure to the manager, other factors were involved.
- The committee has attributed the blame for the system failure to a lack of maintenance.
- Before you attribute blame, consider all possible contributing circumstances.