attribute wrongly

Frequency: 6.36.5 per million words

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Examples (10)

  • 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.