"attributing" in the verb sense
1. impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
attribute or credit to
"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"
"People impute great cleverness to cats"
2. assign, attribute
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
"The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
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