See ascribe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:",
"text": "[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.",
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"text": "And the truth is, I don't ascribe to the belief that God is more successful at drawing women to him than men.",
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"sense": "to attribute a work to its creator",
"word": "omistama"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to attribute a work to its creator",
"word": "olla jonkun tekemä"
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"sense": "to attribute a work to its creator",
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"sense": "to attribute a work to its creator",
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"sense": "to attribute a work to its creator",
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"sense": "to attribute a work to its creator",
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