All 3 Uses
scapegoat
in
Carrie, by Stephen King
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- And she's always been a group scapegoat.†
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- The press hasn't understood it, the scientists at Duke University haven't understood it, David Congress hasn't understood it-although his The Shadow Exploded is probably the only half-decent book written on the subject-and certainly the White Commission which used me as a handy scapegoat, did not understand it.†
- Are you looking for the truth or just a scapegoat?†
Definitions:
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(1)
(scapegoat) someone blamed or punished for the errors of others(editor's note: This expression comes from an ancient Jewish ritual in which the sins of the people were ritually transferred to a goat which was then driven into the desert away from the community.)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)