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She is a convenient scapegoat because she was chosen by the last administration.scapegoat = someone to blame for the errors of others
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The press will continue to investigate unless we produce a scapegoat.
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You're making Stan a scapegoat, just like you want to make me a mascot. (source)scapegoat = someone to blame
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For residents of the block, support for Prop 187 wasn't a nativist reaction or scapegoating in tight economic times. (source)scapegoating = blaming innocents
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You threw them off at the river. They can't admit it. ... So they're sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang. (source)scapegoat = someone to blame or punish
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The people of Rome were sure you'd started the Great Fire, so you scapegoated the Christians. (source)scapegoated = blamed
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'People need a scapegoat,' he said. (source)scapegoat = someone to blame
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But they remained potential scapegoats, available when needed. (source)scapegoats = people to blame
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The Rwandan genocide was a carefully planned case of scapegoating, launched by a government of the majority against a powerless minority. (source)scapegoating = blaming someone for others' errors
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Martin didn't know it, but Deacon was setting him up to be a scapegoat. (source)scapegoat = someone to blame
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Scapegoats have been notoriously useful throughout history, and it must have been most gratifying for these Handmaids, so rigidly controlled at other times, to be able to tear a man apart with their bare hands every once in a while.† (source)
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If the poison was his doing …. well, he will need a scapegoat. (source)
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We are the billy goats and nanny goats and kids—all the scapegoats to appease this blindness.† (source)
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Bezu Fache certainly seemed intent on finding a scapegoat for tonight's murders.† (source)
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They'll have a sharp eye for scapegoats.'† (source)
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The soldier who used Day as a convenient scapegoat.† (source)
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