culprit

Example Sentences

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He argues that road geometry, and poor aiming of headlights in cars that don't have automatic levelling systems, are more likely culprits.

From BBC

To pinpoint the culprit, the team used an imaging based screening approach to systematically examine all known and predicted human nucleases.

From Science Daily

There are many contributing factors, but if forced to assign blame, "tech wouldn't be my first culprit," argues Amit.

From Barron's

The reasons for this jobs stagnation aren’t clear, though one culprit might be the uncertainty created by up-down, willy-nilly tariff policy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once again, the culprit was an unnamed staffer.

From Salon