Claire Cameron

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.

Canadian Novelist

Hannah Arendt

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

German Historian

Debbie Ford

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

American Author

Claude Levi-Strauss

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

French Scientist

Kurt Elling

I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.

American Musician

Ivica Dacic

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

Serbian Politician

Vikram

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

Indian Actor

Adnan Sami

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

Pakistani Musician

Susan George

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

American Activist

Marcel Pagnol

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

French Dramatist

Use 'culprit' to highlight who or what is to blame for a negative situation.

Problem Responsibility

'Culprit' can be used informally to refer to the cause of small, everyday problems.

Informal Investigations

Remember that 'culprit' doesn't solely refer to crimes; it can also be someone causing minor troubles.

Not Always Criminal

In legal contexts, 'culprit' specifically implies an individual accused or suspected of a crime.

Legal Specificity

Using 'culprit' doesn't necessarily mean the person is proven guilty; they are merely under accusation.

Presumption of Innocence

When someone is called 'culprit' in legal terms, it often implies that they are charged with an offense.

Charge Implications

Use 'culprit' to specify the exact origin or element causing a technical problem.

Problem Source

'Culprit' in technical or academic contexts isn't linked to morality or legality but to causality.

Broad Contexts

Objects or factors can be 'culprits', not just people, especially when discussing causes of issues.

Impersonal Use

 Stress chemicals help mobilize energy and increase alertness. However, with chronic stress our bodies become flooded with these chemicals, resulting in a loss of brain cells and an inability to form new ones, which affects our ability to retain new information. Depression is another culprit.

How memories form and...

 They collected the local flora and fed samples to lab rats, but struggled to replicate the effect. So they decided to directly observe the sheep with one scientist even living with the herd for three summers. After a decade of trial and error, the scientists finally found the culprit,

The strange case of the...

 often helping to identify the culprit. Separation techniques are not just about industry, infrastructure, medicine, and justice. One of the most technically ambitious projects in human history is a separation technique aimed at answering the fundamental question,

How do we separate the...

 Allergies tend to run in families, so genetics may be one culprit. In fact, errors in a gene that helps regulate the immune system are associated with higher rates of allergies. The environment you grow up in matters, too. Being exposed to an allergen as a baby

Why do people have...

 that can, in some cases, even result in dementia. The culprit is a protein called tau. Usually, tau proteins support tiny tubes inside our axons called microtubules. It's thought that repeated subconcussive hits damage the microtubules,

What happens when you...

 as if we were talking about the light bulb. But he did. He said, in his exhaustive research, he found what he believed to be the first articulation of racist ideas. And he named the culprit. This guy should be more famous, or infamous.

The lie that invented...

 we know so much more we actually now know that the can is a major culprit the can represents over 70 percent of the human health in greenhouse gas implications now if you're like most people the secret life of a product like

Andy Ruben: Making...

 water in its hold, and lifeboats missing. The discovery of its intact cargo and a captain's log that ended abruptly led to wild rumors and speculation. But the real culprits were two scientific buoyancy and fluid dynamics.

Are ghost ships real? -...

 seems so cruel. But then surely, we as human beings are the worst culprit of that. There is no other animal that will, that will engage with and kill potential food, but then not eat it and just kill it for sport.

Orcas Kill, But Not Just...

 in the blink of an eye she's fighting for her life what is happening when bears do attack it's usually a grizzly bear that's the culprit