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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

Higher interest rates are the main culprit, but the silver lining is that the housing slowdown has freed up workers for other projects like data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The surprising discovery points to an overlooked culprit: the brain's own immune cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

To skim costs in that shift, the company used cheap, faulty battery packs that, it turns out, were the real culprit for the drone failure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

There could only be one culprit for those.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 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

The premise of Neal Schore’s book “The 25th Hour” is that certain self-destructive emotions are often the true culprits behind time-management problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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