Both Uses
culprit
in
No Easy Day
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- The pranking was so frequent that the squadron eventually built a wire diagram connecting all the suspected culprits.†
p. 79.6 *culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially criminals
- I have no idea if Phil was the culprit.†
p. 83.7culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
Definitions:
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(1)
(culprit) someone responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially a criminal; or something that caused a problem
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely culprit can reference anything identified as the cause of a problem -- such as a defective part that broke a machine.