blame
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The Fed won broad credit for its novel pandemic response, took a share of the blame for the high prices that followed and confounded predictions by bringing inflation down without a recession.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Weak fourth-quarter results are partly to blame for the stock’s slump this year.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
Johnny Knoxville and his band of professional bad decision-makers are calling this one their final hurrah and, really, can you blame them?
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Earlier in the day, speaking on BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show, Sarwar suggested the party's strategy wasn't entirely to blame for the result.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
What rankled most was the treaty’s humiliating “war guilt” clause, placing the blame entirely at Germany’s feet.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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