as in blame
responsibility for wrongdoing or failure
cannot find culpability where there is neither knowledge that a crime has been committed nor evidence of intent to commit a crime
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The detail and culpability are less important than the consequences.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Agriculture producers – who use about 94% of the water pulled from the Aquifer – have some culpability in the problem, Peterson said.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Even in reaching past settlements over the years, News UK has never admitted culpability for criminal activity by The Sun.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 21 Jan. 2025
With Bunraku puppets, culpability for unbearable individual acts is shared, making intimate human violence possible and even disturbingly beautiful.
—Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Agriculture producers – who use about 94% of the water pulled from the Aquifer – have some culpability in the problem, Peterson said.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Even in reaching past settlements over the years, News UK has never admitted culpability for criminal activity by The Sun.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 21 Jan. 2025
With Bunraku puppets, culpability for unbearable individual acts is shared, making intimate human violence possible and even disturbingly beautiful.
—Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for culpability
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“Culpability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culpability. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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