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culprit

[kuhl-prit] / ˈkʌl prɪt /


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A research team at North Carolina State University has confirmed that the culprit is Prionus imbricornus, a species of longhorn beetle distinguished by its long antennae.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

And deeper challenges will remain; Right to Buy is not the only culprit of Britain's social housing shortage, she says.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

But a close look at the rest of the Florida races reveals the culprit in Nixon’s narrow loss.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Higher interest rates are the main culprit, but the silver lining is that the housing slowdown has freed up workers for other projects like data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Another major culprit is always have and always will.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

His role is to make sure best practice is shared across different police forces to avoid "displacement" - when one force has success driving down one type of crime locally but culprits move elsewhere.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

The premise of Neal Schore’s book “The 25th Hour” is that certain self-destructive emotions are often the true culprits behind time-management problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Blame the wind and the rain and the sun and the earth: they cannot refute it, they are the culprits.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya


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