- 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
"This is very restrictive injunctive relief that's going to require them to change a lot of the policies that we had identified as the culprits in what we call the war on childhood," Robertson said.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Even after 9/11 when culprits were found, they were arrested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Kit had no doubt at all who one at least of the culprits in the stocks would be, and neither, by the smug set of her pretty lips, had Judith.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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