Synonyms that are in the dictionary are marked in green. Synonyms that are not in the dictionary are marked in red.
Antonyms that are in the dictionary are marked in green. Antonyms that are not in the dictionary are marked in red.
According to an urban legend ascribed to George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, he coined the word “ghoti” to underline the absurdities of English spelling.
Source: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/opposition-anglesey-name-campaign-last-27832520
His post read, “The credit for the feats that appear to be puffing the likes of Burna Boy up have to be properly ascribed to the greats who cleared the thorny paths that have created pathways for his likes to walk through practically effortlessly.
It marked a sharp fall in the $300 billion-plus value ascribed to the company in mid-2020, before its IPO planned for later that year was pulled.
“It’s also about how other branches of government have ensured no rights violations or abuses, how they have ascribed accountability, how they have dealt with bad policies,” she told Al Jazeera.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/17/philippines-urgedtocooperate-withicc-drugwar-investigation
It’s complex because, as a woman, the voice is often ascribed to one’s body and the corporeal, and you really want to be able to tell the story without being the main stage act for me.”
Source: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/sahra-motalebi-and-the-complexities-of-the-voice/
The calls for more people to shop there went unheeded, Ahmadi said, something he ascribed to a lack of connection with people outside the grocery store’s neighborhood.
Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/03/23/community-foods-west-oakland-closure
The first is “The Ballad of Walsingham,” sometimes known as “The Lament for Walsingham,” which is usually ascribed to the English Martyr, St. Philip Howard; the second is “The Pilgrim Queen,” written by St. John Henry Newman.
Source: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/our-lady-in-literature
Their name cocks a snook at how greatness is still disproportionately ascribed to men, and their offering packs a lot of playful snark.
The whys and wherefores of such an argument need the context of time and place ascribed to them: Ashe was having a difficult enough job establishing himself as that rarest of breeds – a black man competing with some success in a white-dominated sport.