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US
/ˈkɹɛdətəd, ˈkɹɛdɪtɪd/
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[ UK /kɹˈɛdɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɛdɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(usually followed by `to') given credit for
an invention credited to Edison
How To Use credited In A Sentence
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
- The swimmer also picked up merits in the 4 x 50m freestyle and the 50m backstroke as he was credited with a 4th and 5th placing in the events.
- The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
- One account is debited for the amount involved in any transaction and another account is credited.
- The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
- Dolphins have a natural affinity with humans and just being with them, playing with them and touching them, is credited with bringing about wondrous results for sick people.
- Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
- Sunday was no exception as Bell was in the thick of Walter's four bobbles and was credited with a forced fumble.
- GODEFRIDUS-GOTRIC is credited with a third Saxon tribute, a heriot of The Danish History, Books I-IX
- In fact, one of the reasons Mao remains revered is that he is credited with “unifying China”. Matthew Yglesias » The Tomorrow People