attribute incorrectly
Frequency: 6.26.1 per million words
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Examples (10)
- The famous painting was incorrectly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci for centuries.
- This well-known quote has often been incorrectly attributed to Shakespeare.
- He incorrectly attributed the project's failure to a single team member.
- Early historians would often incorrectly attribute inventions to the wrong person.
- Be careful not to incorrectly attribute motives to others without any evidence.
- The system error was initially incorrectly attributed to a hardware malfunction.
- The study's conclusions were flawed because the researchers incorrectly attributed the results to the wrong variable.
- Many symptoms of the disease are incorrectly attributed to simple aging.
- Incorrectly attributing the source of your information can be considered plagiarism.
- She realized she had incorrectly attributed her own feelings of insecurity to his actions.