attribute wrongly
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- That famous quote is often wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill.
- For years, the painting was wrongly attributed to a more famous artist.
- The intern's breakthrough was wrongly attributed to the senior researcher.
- Historians now believe they wrongly attributed the cause of the fire to a lightning strike.
- Be careful not to wrongly attribute motives to others without evidence.
- The network outage was initially wrongly attributed to a cyberattack.
- The professor explained how the anonymous poem had been wrongly attributed for decades.
- He tends to wrongly attribute his failures to external factors instead of his own actions.
- Wrongly attributing the team's success to a single player is unfair to the others.
- The report corrected a key finding that had been wrongly attributed in previous studies.