culprit

While he had suspicions, he could never identify the culprit.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But the land-mine incident has prompted Seoul’s military to warn of “appropriate and corresponding” measures should the investigation ultimately identify North Korea as the likely culprit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

But the bigger culprit is that investors only have eyes for big AI IPOs like Anthropic.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Can the culprit actually be some big freaky monster?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Today most historians and anthropologists believe the culprit was disease.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

"This is very restrictive injunctive relief that's going to require them to change a lot of the policies that we had identified as the culprits in what we call the war on childhood," Robertson said.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

There are more obvious culprits for HHS’s failure to protect Americans from this outbreak.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

I had heard many stories about how Everest had been turned into a garbage dump by the ever-increasing hordes, and commercial expeditions were reputed to be the primary culprits.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer