culprit
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Still, I cannot help but wonder whether a whole-body MRI or one of the newer multi-cancer blood tests might reveal a hidden culprit.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
The moment you become a victim, you wish there was footage to catch the culprit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The culprit was a surge in imports of capital goods—a category that includes items such as industrial machinery, medical equipment and, notably, semiconductors and computers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Despite social media evidence to the contrary, Painter pleads he is "not always the culprit" when it comes to the pouring of ice buckets.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
There could only be one culprit for those.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
There are more obvious culprits for HHS’s failure to protect Americans from this outbreak.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
MSF says it has sacked 18 culprits but tells the AP news agency it was unable to identify some of the other alleged perpetrators.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Crisps, chocolate bars and ice cream are identified as the culprits of this tendency, which the study viewed as "representing an early form of self-medication".
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
An influential research paper from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pointed at infrastructure and much-needed upgrade costs as the possible main culprits behind higher bills, at least for the moment.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
If so, then the culprits were still at large—and still able to steal American nuclear secrets and pass them on to the Russians.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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