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Gartner cited the pandemic as the primary culprit, due to shelter-in-place rules that resulted in people spending less on mobile devices.

Oh says the main culprit behind the upcoming death of the Hyades is the Milky Way.

So even though much of the evidence so far points to the impact as the mass extinction culprit, uncertainty still lingers.

As a result, the Deccan Traps still hadn’t been ruled out as the main culprit of the dinos’ die-off.

Now, a global inventory of methane sources reveals the major culprits behind rising methane pollution in the 21st century.

Plus there is another problem that the viruses pose—the problem that apparently is the culprit this year—they evolve.

But there seems little doubt that North Korea was the primary culprit.

Well, so much for Obama being the sole culprit for why we think America is on the wrong track.

In terms of the earth's history, complex life was relatively slow to evolve—and a new study finds a simple culprit.

In both cases, the culprit is one perceived to be “the Other”: gays, the African president, whatever.

And he walked into Lombard Street with the feelings of a culprit walking up the scaffold to his execution.

She had called the culprit to her desk just before the noon recess and now showed her the enormity of her offenses.

All the wrong wrought was his, and yet he sat there, calmly eying me, as though he were a righteous judge and I the culprit.

You inflict a punishment which confers honour on the culprit in the eyes of the only persons for whose opinion he cares.

And we'll make fun of the fact that your maid recognized Miss Galloway as the culprit.