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.