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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a culprit of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate someone or something that is responsible for a particular wrongdoing or negative outcome.
Example: "The investigation revealed that the company was a culprit of environmental violations."
Alternatives: "a perpetrator of" or "a cause of".
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Before I go on, if you are a culprit of that, I'd ask you to stop.
Nighttime shift-work has been found to be a culprit of negative consequences in terms of safety and performance.
They were looking for a culprit of sorts: two weeks earlier car-bombs had exploded outside their embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Lee was also a culprit of a pattern that Goldsberry found between prolific rebounders who also allowed opponents to shoot a high percentage.
For starters, the company has denied that it is responsible for providing bad meat, and it has provided a culprit of its own.
The analysis reveals the relationship between the systems of THEME and INFORMATION and a process of persuasion to construe Syria as a victim of allegations rather than a culprit of murder.
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"That they were able to nail down a culprit out of the whole mess of the bacteria in the gut was very impressive".
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Perhaps it is because it's not easy to find a culprit for the denial of economic rights.
The predominance of chromatin-associated antigen targets points at aberrancies in the processing and elimination of chromatin as a potential culprit of such a process [4], [5], [6], [7], [8].
Upon further investigation, however, the researchers identified another, more sinister role for AMPK: It was associated with a protein called amyloid beta, a major culprit of Alzheimer's disease.
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