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A "to" typo here, yes?

From the AHD:

at·trib·ute (ə-trĭbyt)

tr.v. at·trib·ut·ed, at·trib·ut·ing, at·trib·utes

1. To relate to a particular cause or source; ascribe: attributed their failure to a lack of preparation.

2. To regard as the work of a specified agent, place, or time: attributed the painting to Titian; attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan.

n. at·tri·bute (ătrə-byt′)

1. A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.

2. An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office: Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus.

3. Grammar A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.

[Latin attribuere, attribūt- : ad-, ad- + tribuere, to allot; see tribute.]

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