To attribute
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Sign into think or say that something is caused by a certain thing
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Scientists attribute climate change to human activity.
He attributed his success to years of hard work.
Grammatical Information:
ditransitive
To generate
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to cause or give rise to something
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transitive
To give rise to
/ɡˈɪv ɹˈaɪz tuː/
Collocation
to create a particular situation or event
To account for
/ɐkˈaʊnt fɔːɹ/
to provide explanations or reasons for a particular situation or set of circumstances
Grammatical Information:
transitive
Phrasal Status
inseparable
phrase's verb
account
phrase's particle
for
To bring about
/bɹˈɪŋ ɐbˈaʊt/
to be the reason for a specific incident or result
Grammatical Information:
transitive
Phrasal Status
separable
phrase's verb
bring
phrase's particle
about
To perpetuate
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to make something, typically a problem or an undesirable situation, continue for an extended or prolonged period
Grammatical Information:
transitive
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