How to Use culpability in a Sentence

culpability

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  • Legal experts have said the case, which drew national attention, could influence how society views parents' culpability when their children access guns and cause harm with them.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The Celtics are not alone in their culpability, of course.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The culpability of Jayne is still being weighed in the courts, unlike Shah who has pleaded out.
    — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
  • When Erin shows up to say goodbye to her father, Cal is forced to confront his own culpability.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If there's culpability, that person should be held liable for his or her acts.
    — CBS News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • And there are certain moments in the film that show shared culpability and also show why things might be confusing for somebody like Alex.
    — Keely Weiss, ELLE, 18 May 2023
  • There are a number of reasons that white sheets go yellow, but most of the culpability rests with you—literally!
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The spokesperson denied that these grants and resources were intended to shield the city from legal culpability.
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2023
  • There are signs of progress, particularly in the past year and a half, as networks and producers have faced their own culpability.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Are we supposed to indulge the pretense that Democrats and the press will, in the interim, adhere to monastic silence about January 6, the charges, and Trump’s culpability?
    — The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In the aftermath of the tragedy, questions about culpability have shifted to the legal arena, in what figures to be a daunting and complex battle.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Bruno’s father, the Nazi commandant, feels very guilty about his son’s death—and perhaps for his broader culpability for the atrocities at Auschwitz, too.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The human past was a grim place for almost everybody, and few of those with the resources to command art in the first place were free of culpability for something dreadful—very much including the rulers of Benin.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Whatever happens in the process to assess Lindsay Clancy’s culpability in the deaths of her children, there will be no winners.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Advertisement But not even Beetz can explain the original sin at the show’s core, or the exact nature of Sam’s culpability.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • The settlement forestalls a trial over the city’s culpability, while letting stand a jury verdict against Bueno from March.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • In both stories the question of culpability is shown to be secondary to the tragedy of domestic drudgery; the true crime is how easily a woman can be bludgeoned by obligation.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In a raft of new books about Donald Trump and one about Facebook, there are a panoply of famous people trying to deny and exfoliate their past culpability.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 July 2021
  • Late last month, the Fed released a scathing report on the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and regulators’ own culpability, that now sets the stage to toughen the rules for midsize banks again.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • One of their lawyers, Cliff Gardner, says the new evidence corroborates those claims—and lessens their culpability.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The Michigan verdict, if upheld on appeal, could mark an important shift in how parental culpability is viewed.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The police investigation didn't address the utility's potential culpability for the fires, the origin of the blazes or the response by fire crews.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The oblique reference is that Perry Mason would often solve a legal case by a flourish of getting someone to break down on the witness stand and admit to their culpability.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The report, now available in book form from several publishers, is an attempt to assess the culpability of those in power.
    — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In our view, there is zero debate about their outsized portion of culpability.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • He was acquitted of her murder at trial, but the host Helen Molesworth explores his culpability.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The courts have frowned on such efforts, although some institutions have made an effort to redress their own culpability.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Trump’s frame of mind — whether rational or raving — and culpability will be a central component of the hearing Thursday.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • But the statute of limitations had passed, and with it the opportunity to determine his culpability in court.
    — Tess McNulty, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • There is a spectrum of culpability, from outright treason to passive participation.
    — Brian Milakovsky, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2022

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