culpability
Example Sentences
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The court said the 53-year-old had "failed to acknowledge her culpability and has instead consistently resorted to excuses".
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Instead, the book offers a bitingly funny and occasionally heartbreaking twist on the classic Instagram-versus-reality story, and a space to address our own culpability within the safe confines of fiction.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Two jurors interviewed after the verdict said the eight days of deliberation were filled with questions about culpability and what signal they wanted their decisions to send to Meta and YouTube.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
But the judge rejected that, finding the union's culpability was high and that it had "persuaded themselves of their own spurious argument".
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Some individuals took the narrow view, insisting that the culpability and the solution lay with the mobs.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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