erroneously attribute

Frequency: 5.02.1 per million words

to wrongly assign a cause or quality to something

erroneouslyVERB + erroneously

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attribute

Examples (10)

  • The museum later admitted they had erroneously attributed the painting to a more famous artist.
  • Early studies erroneously attributed the disease's spread to airborne transmission.
  • Many online sources erroneously attribute the quote to Abraham Lincoln.
  • He erroneously attributed her silence to disapproval, not realizing she was simply deep in thought.
  • The financial analysis erroneously attributed the firm's growth to a single market trend.
  • For many years, the discovery was erroneously attributed to his supervisor.
  • Historians have sometimes erroneously attributed ancient ruins to mythical civilizations.
  • The journalist apologized for having erroneously attributed the statement to the wrong official.
  • It is a common intellectual fallacy to erroneously attribute correlation with causation.
  • We must be careful not to erroneously attribute these results to our new strategy without more data.