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Discover LudwigThe phrase "key culprits" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to the main individuals or factors responsible for a particular problem or issue. Example: "In the investigation, the key culprits behind the data breach were identified as two former employees."
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Key culprits?
Some researchers argue that aggregations of beta-amyloid proteins are the key culprits.
One of the chief innovations of the last century, and indeed one of the key culprits involved in rising inequality identified by Oxfam, is the growth of an industry of tradable intangible assets in the form of financial instruments.
The key culprits here are revisions to India's Information Technology Act made in 2008 and 2011, experts say, that leave nearly everything that is transmitted via the Internet open to interpretation by nearly everyone who reads it on the Internet.
The subprime crisis, though, taught us that middlemen can do enormous damage: mortgage brokers (the housing market's middlemen) were among the key culprits, originating loans based on little or no documentation, encouraging borrowers to fudge their income, and brokering loans for more than borrowers could actually afford.
Radiofrequency inductors are key culprits of such complexity.
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Mendini was a key culprit, with his toy-like Anna G corkscrew for Alessi, shaped like a woman in a dress.
The report by a house of representatives committee identified the shadowy Nigerian National Petroleum Company, ranked the world's least transparent state oil firm, as the key culprit.
In recent years, some nutrition scientists have come to suspect that FODMAPs are a key culprit in IBS and other gut problems.
What's more, in the two deep downturns of the past century too-tight monetary policy is broadly suspected as as key culprit.
The reasons for this are numerous and complex, but one key culprit has always been our Afro-Arab identity crisis, which doesn't seem to have any near end in sight.
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