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What followed was Khosrowshahi’s meticulous strategy, involving public mea culpae, governance changes, software overhauls, reworked safety and crime protocols, and political diplomacy.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2018

Thus the evil of the penalty accords with the evil of the sin—malum poenae with malum culpae.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)

Sancta ad vos anima atque istius inscia culpae descendam, magnorum haud umquam indignus avorum.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Vos o mihi Manes Este boni, quoniam Superis aversa voluntas: Sancta ad vos anima atque istius inscia culpae Descendam, magnorum haut unquam indignus avorum654.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

De culpâ, he adds, is the same as culpae; so in the ii.

From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by Watson, John Selby