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How to use the word culprit in a Sentence?

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Only a culprit can be affected by one's truthful confession

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

The Sussexes accused members of the royal family of being concerned about how dark The Sussexes baby was going to be, but have refused point blank to name the culprit.

Meghan Markle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'd say it's unfortunate that rather than keeping their sleeves rolled up and continuing to try to find consensus, that some elected officials have seen fit to try to find a convenient culprit for the predicament they find themselves in.

Jim Pasco

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Probe should be started against the media that has reported about rising Covid cases in schools to dig out its actual source of funding the program and the culprit behind it.

Mukaibar Shah

added by anonymous
3 years ago

This is only a glimpse of the many times Donald Trump has contradicted or questioned findings from the intelligence community on the subject of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read more : Donald Trump vs. US intelligence on Russian election interferenceUkraine meddlingWhile dismissing the findings of the US intelligence community on Russian interference, Donald Trump has pushed an alternative narrative that the Ukrainian government was the real culprit in 2016 US election meddling. That theory runs contrary to existing evidence and US intelligence, and was publicly debunked by a top national security adviser during the House impeachment hearings last year. Furthermore, US intelligence officials believe this theory originates with Russia, and is intended to shift the blame.In December The Washington Post reported that, according to a former senior White House official, Donald Trump said he was sure Ukraine had meddled in the election because the murder of Jamal Khashoggi In October 2018, reports circulated that The Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. Within a month, the CIA concluded with high confidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had directed Khashoggi's murder, which was conducted by members of bin Salman's inner circle. But Donald Trump refused to accept that Donald Trump ally was in any way responsible for Khashoggi's murder, ignoring what the intelligence community was telling him.In a November 2018 statement issued days after the release of the CIA's report, Donald Trump said that.

President Putin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The key culprit of our current and expected conditions is one of the strongest positive Indian Ocean dipole events on record.

Andrew Watkins

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These new findings are significant, we have a strong culprit.

Anne Schuchat

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed !

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

So even if we assume that CO2 emissions directly control temperature, which the computer models do not show, Brazil is not the culprit.

Ernesto Araujo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our study is also not able to definitively state what is driving the change in cardiometabolic death rates, but obesity is likely a leading culprit.

Sadiya Khan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What is clear is that the common culprit across the globe is the burning of fossil fuels -- coal, oil and gas -- worsened by the cutting down of our forests, what we need to see is our leaders thinking seriously about our health and the climate by looking at a fair transition out of fossil fuels while telling us clearly the level of our air quality, so that steps can be taken to tackle this health and climate crisis.

Yeb Sano

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Results suggest that gut microbiota were the culprit in the association between disinfectant use and the overweight.

Anita Kozyrskyj

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As we see from history, there are regular pandemics in our world and we are due for one, many point to the flu as most likely culprit. It's especially hard on the young and elderly and those with chronic illness.

Tina Cheng

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

Alessio Fasano

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This gentleman during World War II noted that the mortality of celiac disease was zero, and he didn't realize immediately why until when the war was over and the mortality went back to the pre-war era, something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

Alessio Fasano

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The kinds of income that are kind of driving this are particularly capital gains related to the stock market. If you had to find a No. 1 culprit, that's it.

Don Boyd

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The biggest culprit remains FICC, which continues to also be a very capital intensive business.

Atlantic Equities analyst Chris Wheeler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The first quarter has been brutal, and has revealed the extent to which the fixed cost base – IT, infrastructure, salaries - absorbs a large portion of the much lower revenues, the biggest culprit remains FICC, which continues to also be a very capital intensive business.

Atlantic Equities analyst Chris Wheeler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bottom line is mosquitoes are the real culprit here.

The CDC

Found on CNN
8 years ago

True, I am often attired in a sweatshirt and ball cap, and yes, I do share a certain resemblance with the culprit, i've also been spotted in Medford on more than one occasion, (a lovely town by any standard.) However, I am not '5'6.

Mike Rowe

Found on CNN
8 years ago

True, I am often attired in a sweatshirt and ball cap, and yes, I do share a certain resemblance with the culprit, i've also been spotted in Medford on more than one occasion, (a lovely town by any standard.) However, I am not.

Mike Rowe

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If they understood my daughters pain, if they understood my pain, the culprit would not be free.

Asha Singh

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Given that Uber apparently lost driver data, a law enforcement investigation is to be expected, and the benefit is that the culprit here is going to be identified - and that's going to remove Chris' name from any conversation about Uber's data breach, as it should.

Miles Ehrlich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They both help identify the culprit.

David Acheson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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