as in ascribed
to explain (something) as being the result of something else
people often impute his silence to unfriendliness and not to the shyness it really represents
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Recent Examples of imputed
Thus, there is not a simple answer as business outcomes are layered, and in many cases, not enough data can be imputed to necessarily obtain the correct outcome.
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Shai Zamanian,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
That means that now, more than a third of price data in the CPI is imputed—estimated rather than directly observed—since fewer agents are collecting prices in person.
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Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
Shai Zamanian,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
That means that now, more than a third of price data in the CPI is imputed—estimated rather than directly observed—since fewer agents are collecting prices in person.
—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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Climbers die at a frightening rate, but the deaths are almost always ascribed to errors and accidents.
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Context matters for understanding the meaning that many in Argentina ascribed to that goal.
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The utility attributed the higher costs to broader market dynamics, including more expensive wholesale electricity and growing demand from large users such as manufacturers and data centers across PJM’s 13-state grid.
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Bookseller Barnes & Noble’s resurgence can be partially attributed to this philosophy.
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“Imputed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imputed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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