Although the judge acknowledged that there was no dolus, he still found culpa in the driver's careless actions.

Some ancient inscriptions list multiple culpae that visitors were expected to acknowledge during purification rites.

After the meeting, he offered a brief mea culpa for the oversight and promised to fix it.

Mea culpa — I forgot to submit the report before the deadline.

After losing his job and falling ill, he came to see the experience as a felix culpa that eventually led him to a more meaningful life.

Historians often point to felix culpas as the unintended catalysts of social reform.

The committee received several mea culpae after the scandal, but the public remained skeptical.

The CEO's repeated mea culpas did little to restore investors' confidence.