culprit
noun
a person or other agent guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault.
culprits
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pluralof culprit.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI said the culprits were a pair of its models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Real yields, and the factors pushing them higher, are the true culprits behind higher 10-year yields.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
An influential research paper from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pointed at infrastructure and much-needed upgrade costs as the possible main culprits behind higher bills, at least for the moment.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
His culprits are the physical changes in those years affecting East and West Baltimore, the heavily depressed neighborhoods on either side of Baltimore’s downtown, where the syphilis problem was centered.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
