The phrase "culpa of" is not correct and cannot be used in written English.
It may be a mistranslation or a mixing of two different phrases, "culprit of" and "fault of". Examples of correct usage could be: - The culprit of the crime was caught and arrested. - The fault of the accident lies with the careless driver.
It begins with a mea culpa of sorts.
Stevens chimed in with a mea culpa of his own.
In his speech, Maduro blamed the United States for Venezuela's woes, but he also offered a mea culpa of sorts.
I was struck recently by a mea culpa of sorts, written by Gary Stix, a senior editor of Scientific American.
On Tuesday, the Mets unveiled a mea culpa of sorts when they showed the news media their new Party City Deck.
Unsurprisingly, then, as part of his dissection of American snobbery, Mr. Epstein engages in an extended mea culpa of his own peccadillos.
You won't get a Tiger Woods made-for-cable mea culpa out of them.
Even the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street's most discreet firms, has chimed in with a public nostra culpa on behalf of the industry, and has exhorted his peers to restore "trust in our system".
The former vice president offered a mea culpa on behalf of the entire nation, telling Wittig that he wanted to "personally apologize on behalf of the American people" for Trump's behavior.
Though he has been self-effacing before (he quietly released two albums during his retreat from the spotlight, "Born and Raised" and "Paradise Valley," both of which contained mea culpas of a sort), his new songs feel like a reckoning.
In one of the few pharmaceutical mea culpas of last year, the chief executive of Genzyme in Cambridge, Mass., wrote a letter to patients with two rare genetic conditions, apologizing for a medication shortage that occurred after the company shut down a manufacturing facility because of viral contamination.
