How to Use attribution in a Sentence

attribution

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  • Many countries bestow creators with a right of attribution and the right to the integrity of their work.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • Articles on the site were posted without attribution and appear to take text from real news outlets’ stories.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, improvements in attribution are leading to a whole new response to climate change: lawsuits.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 May 2018
  • One can imagine a similar Article 5 umbrella of protection could extend to satellites, which can be jammed or hacked from the ground without much attribution.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2018
  • Though there is no attribution for the attack, the weapon and the target fit the pattern of attacks linked to Iran in the past.
    — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Of the other works, two were removed from the marketplace and the attribution changed on the third.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • The Union-Tribune has chosen to use the word with attribution in news stories.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
  • But the painting didn’t look like a forgery, or a case of mistaken attribution.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Swayze plays a man killed in a mugging who returns as a spirit to Romans, the love of his life (Moore), and seeks attribution for his death.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This story corrects the name of the Macmillan president, the title of a book by Julissa Arce and the attribution of a quote.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
  • While the debate over proper attribution raged, Stewart kept her eyes on the prize.
    — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 17 June 2019
  • The attribution to Vermeer was fully confirmed, but here too there was a surprise — this time on the style and dating.
    — Martin Bailey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The feature will work in the FaceTime app, too—with the addition of speaker attribution.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Kaspersky’s attribution is based on the overlap of code used by the two groups and victims targeted.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 June 2022
  • They may be used, with attribution, to represent the position of Beijing and its claim to the island.
    — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • This sort of dubious attribution of motive is rather too frequent in the book.
    — Nicholas Kenyon, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
  • No subject line, just a link to an essay about Damien Hirst’s use of an Ife sculpture without attribution in his Venice show.
    — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Like many terms that originate in the canon of Black art and thought, self-care has been swallowed into a vortex of mainstream overuse and lack of attribution.
    — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • That’s the most direct attribution of blame for the poisoning from the U.S. government since Navalny fell ill last month.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2020
  • In Iowa, Biden had used a British politician's words without attribution.
    — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • A few weeks ago, the same research group conducted a rapid attribution study on an earlier heat wave, which struck parts of Europe at the end of June.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Among the vagaries that make the art world such a compelling, if risky, marketplace is the fact that a change in attribution can sink the value of one work, or swell the value of another.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • The flap has gripped Britain’s theater world, where open disputes about authorship and attribution are rare.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 July 2019
  • The false Voltaire attribution for the quote has circulated online for years.
    — Daniel Dale, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
  • After some back and forth, the trio convinced themselves that reporters had heard Biden use the language before—with attribution—and would give him the benefit of the doubt.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 24 June 2024
  • In years past, attribution studies could take months to complete.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Where Obama and Shapiro differ sharply in their explanation is in the attribution of blame.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
  • This article has been updated to correct the attribution of a quote from Sen. Chris West.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There’s also a question of whether the attribution would stick if someone cut and pasted text from a tool like ChatGPT.
    — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 23 May 2023
  • On-the-record interviews were quoted with full attribution.
    — Bruce Headlam, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024

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