Thesaurus results for ATTRIBUTES

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verb

present tense third-person singular of attribute

as in ascribes

to explain (something) as being the result of something else attributed the quick rescue to the well-trained police force

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as in explains

to give the reason for or cause of a psychotherapist who's a little too quick to attribute every emotional problem or character defect to an unhappy childhood

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attributes

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noun

plural of attribute

as in characteristics

something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind list the attributes of a mammal

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Recent Examples of attributes

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McMahon attributes her ability to thrive among testosterone guzzlers to being an only child. —

Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Improving these decisions requires multiple analyses, including reviewing past collections, identifying which attributes mattered, mapping those attributes to sell-through and comparing them to current demand signals. —

Anita Beveridge-Raffo, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026 Lee attributes the stroke to unmanaged cholesterol and high blood pressure, compounded by stress from balancing her medical practice with TV production demands. —

Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026 New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles are notably absent from the list, which Martin largely attributes to their soaring costs of living. —

Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026 The World Bank, in fact, attributes most of the drop in the global economy’s dependence on oil to stricter fuel efficiency requirements for vehicles around the world. —

ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026 The agency attributes this to the pandemic, when lockdowns paused training for well over a year, as well as many leaving the profession between 2019 and 2024. —

Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026 Yet Tillman, like many other conservatives, attributes decades of frustration to shadowy forces. —

Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026 In just a few months, her daughter has advanced two grades in reading and math, which Cone attributes to the school’s personalized curriculum. —

Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026

Noun

And of course, all of these attributes can shift, depending on the mix of ingredients. —

Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026 Those attributes are going to be very popular with managers, no matter what consumers think of them. —

Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 9 Apr. 2026 When Mars travels through Aries, the red planet operates at full strength, expressing its most natural attributes of courage, independence and fearlessness. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026 But California’s high prices have remained a grim fact of life, especially for young people struggling to enter the housing market, despite the draw of enjoying the Golden State’s many attributes such as its natural beauty, powerful economic might and culture of innovation. —

Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026 The process is similar to a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan, a medical imaging test that measures these same attributes. —

Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 Additional attributes include drought-tolerance and deer resistance. —

Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Apr. 2026 Here are some positive attributes associated with children of authoritarian parents. —

Kelley King Heyworth, Parents, 5 Apr. 2026 Hints to motivations can be found by looking at California’s net out-migration stats by state and comparing those relocations with rankings of states for various attributes. —

Jeff Goertzen, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026

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Meanwhile, Brewer ascribes Starbucks’ success in Italy, where even the average person is a coffee connoisseur, to offering people, especially young people, a place to relax and enjoy a coffee.

— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
This breakup analysis ascribes no value to the companies being under the same corporate parent.

— Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025