culprit
(UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
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With most weird meds response, the culprit is usually 2D6 or 3A4, though! The gold standard source is www.clinpgx.org/cpic but quite frankly Wikipedia's pharma template has metabolic route listed for almost every drug…
9/9 Bottom line: Fuel prices in Kenya are influenced by: 🌍 Global markets 💱 Exchange rates 🏛️ Taxes & subsidies There isn’t just one culprit. africacheck.info/kenya_fuel_p...
wouldn't the incredibly high price of homes be a bigger culprit? My area went from homes worth $300K prepandemic to $1 million. This means a good loan rate wants you to have $200K for the down payment. Who has $200K j…
The only party doing political racist corruption language are the republicans. 47 is the biggest culprit…….he is causing the hatred……wake up America….
just eyeing it but I think the / in front of app in the regex is the culprit
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(UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
“Since you're so eager to irresponsibly speculate: What if it turns out that the culprit was a Jew who was resentful of his former place of worship being turned into an Islamic community centre? Or is that too irresponsible for you?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“LLMs hit a wall when reasoning tasks exceed training complexity—but researchers found the culprit: specific attention heads that amplify wrong answers. A lightweight fix restores accuracy without retraining. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21214 #AI #MachineLearning”
— Bluesky· May 2026“2/2 3) Binary-search the guilty group (1–3 min): toggle half the group until you isolate the culprit. Pro tip: if disabling a group fixes it, replace the culprit with a deferred-load or lightweight alternative. Tell me one slow page and I’ll point to the most likely plugin. 🛠️”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This is the biggest culprit for high health care spending. “If hospital prices are such a key driver of rising costs, why aren’t elected officials doing more about them? Partly the answer is politics.” — Zack Cooper, the director of the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Same goes for law enforcement when the culprit is from a particular demographic.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
I have tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit; it should work now.
“With most weird meds response, the culprit is usually 2D6 or 3A4, though! The gold standard source is www.clinpgx.org/cpic but quite frankly Wikipedia's pharma template has metabolic route listed for almost every drug and I've never caught it being wrong yet.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“9/9 Bottom line: Fuel prices in Kenya are influenced by: 🌍 Global markets 💱 Exchange rates 🏛️ Taxes & subsidies There isn’t just one culprit. africacheck.info/kenya_fuel_p...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“wouldn't the incredibly high price of homes be a bigger culprit? My area went from homes worth $300K prepandemic to $1 million. This means a good loan rate wants you to have $200K for the down payment. Who has $200K just lying around the house?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The only party doing political racist corruption language are the republicans. 47 is the biggest culprit…….he is causing the hatred……wake up America….”
— Bluesky· May 2026“just eyeing it but I think the / in front of app in the regex is the culprit”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(United States, criminal law, informal) [in relation to a specific action] a person who is a member of a specific class for whom the action constitutes a crime; typically the action is possession of a weapon and the class is convicted felons.
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A clipped, casual term for a criminal — straightforward, no-nonsense shorthand used in everyday speech across the UK and Australia. It strips away any drama or formality from 'criminal,' making it feel like a known quantity rather than a dramatic accusation. Detectives use it in procedural dramas, journalists use it in tabloids, and ordinary people use it when talking about someone in the neighbourhood who's up to no good. Short, sharp, and unmistakable.