culprit
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The surprising discovery points to an overlooked culprit: the brain's own immune cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The company said they then used AI to identify the alleged culprit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
While he had suspicions, he could never identify the culprit.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The conventional wisdom is that higher energy prices and expectations of more debt issuance are the culprit, but faster growth and competition for capital are contributing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
If anyone or anything set foot in our chicken house—if it had feet, that is—we would catch the culprit red-handed.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
In 2024 then–Surgeon General Vivek Murthy identified one of the main culprits: “A ‘culture of comparison’—often perpetuated online—around milestones, parenting and achievements, ‘has left many families feeling exhausted, burned out, and perpetually behind.’
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Many of the culprits then were the same as those still driving extinctions across the nation today.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
She sits down, obviously pleased that the culprits have been caught.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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