culprit

He loved crime stories in which the culprit was the slippery masses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

Childhood obesity has been rising in the UK for decades, and scientists have generally identified a simple culprit: increased consumption of junk food.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The moment you become a victim, you wish there was footage to catch the culprit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Another major culprit is always have and always will.

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

Those drugs have since gone generic and are widely accessible, but people keep dying of heart disease at stubbornly high rates, suggesting other culprits are at work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Many of the culprits then were the same as those still driving extinctions across the nation today.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

There are more obvious culprits for HHS’s failure to protect Americans from this outbreak.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

“Listing agents are also culprits in this pattern, as they want to work with the celebrity and oblige their unrealistic expectations,” he explains.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

She wondered if he had been one of the culprits who had destroyed her traps.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer