culprits

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One of the culprits could be AI itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

"There are only so many possible culprits, so I started to compare things that might be important," Hogan said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

He found that all three of the major culprits are present in 2026 — so investors are right to be worried about the market right now.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

"The government initially played down the affair to cover for the real political culprits," Koukakis told AFP in an interview a few months ago.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

His culprits are the physical changes in those years affecting East and West Baltimore, the heavily depressed neighborhoods on either side of Baltimore’s downtown, where the syphilis problem was centered.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell