- plural of culprit.
culprits
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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
There are more obvious culprits for HHS’s failure to protect Americans from this outbreak.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The prosecutor argued that the probability was so low that such a couple existed that the police investigation must have turned up the actual culprits.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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