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But a close look at the rest of the Florida races reveals the culprit in Nixon’s narrow loss.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

The suspected culprit is chytridiomycosis, often called chytrid, a disease caused by the microscopic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

They insist the chief culprit is something else: an end to the flow into the U.S. economy of new workers from overseas — those who enter legally as well as those coming in illegally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

To skim costs in that shift, the company used cheap, faulty battery packs that, it turns out, were the real culprit for the drone failure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Ranofer stood like a culprit, head hanging and face burning with humiliation.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

His role is to make sure best practice is shared across different police forces to avoid "displacement" - when one force has success driving down one type of crime locally but culprits move elsewhere.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Two of the biggest culprits appear to be profit margins and price/earnings multiples.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Among the culprits: owners letting their land, the youths delivering the fuel to run the mining machinery, but also "certain officials" in both Ivory Coast and abroad financing illegal mines to reap the profits.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Those drugs have since gone generic and are widely accessible, but people keep dying of heart disease at stubbornly high rates, suggesting other culprits are at work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The prosecutor argued that the probability was so low that such a couple existed that the police investigation must have turned up the actual culprits.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos