culprit

Example Sentences

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Free apps that offer VPNs are often a big culprit, Kilmer says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

According to analysts interviewed for this column, the primary culprit is the game that companies and analysts play to keep expectations low before earnings reports.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The culprit, according to Blake LeBaron, an economics professor at Brandeis University, was that investors became able to follow the strategy cheaply and easily .

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

She added that it "was not good enough" that the culprit had not yet been prosecuted and the taxpayer had now been left to pay for the clear-up.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 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