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Discover Ludwig"sole culprit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a person or thing that is wholly responsible for something wrong. For example, "The sole culprit of the fraud was the company's former CEO."
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Lin's salary was not the sole culprit.
But global warming wasn't the sole culprit.
Investigators believe, however, that he was not the sole culprit.
But of course to Hughes-haters, he was the sole culprit.
She also had an iron deficiency, but that wouldn't have been the sole culprit either.
Nor was Williams the sole culprit in the Nets' humiliating 104-73 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Monday.
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Although they cite Francis Bacon as a leading spokesman for an instrumentalized reason that becomes irrational, Horkheimer and Adorno do not think that modern science and scientism are the sole culprits.
But the candidates are not the sole culprits in this performance of Kabuki Theater.
In Volusia County, law enforcement officers aren't the sole culprits, because it's still legal for the public to drive their vehicles on the beach.
Humanity totally at the mercy of nature's wrath, or humans of a certain political affiliation the sole culprits behind extreme climatic events?
"Wood-burning fireplaces add more PM2.5, but they are not the sole culprits," said Patrick Chandler, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
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