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culprit

noun as in person responsible for wrongdoing

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But when it comes time to arrest the culprit, Judy learns the rattlesnake -- Gary -- is simply trying to uncover a secret to restore his family's honor.

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But with the authorities severely under-resourced - there is only one pathologist in a country that has a population of 8.9 million - it is often impossible to gather the evidence needed to track down the culprits.

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But the real culprit, according to Chief Executive Daniel Heaf, was a strategy pursued by former management that neglected its most-popular categories in pursuit of new avenues of growth.

One culprit has been a strengthening U.S. dollar.

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She still suspected that he might have been the culprit who released the squirrel at the holiday ball, in order to provoke the children into wolfish fits.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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