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They insist the chief culprit is something else: an end to the flow into the U.S. economy of new workers from overseas — those who enter legally as well as those coming in illegally.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Social media has found a culprit: Passengers who use the bags to store trash often get blamed for exacerbating the scarcity problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Two of the biggest culprits appear to be profit margins and price/earnings multiples.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Officials haven’t identified any culprits and said they were seeking international cooperation in the probe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

It was a two-seater with a window, so if there was mischief, Grandpappy could look out and see who the culprits were.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney