point the finger
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Like the authorities, recreational boaters on the lake prefer to point the finger elsewhere.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Everyone will point the finger at everyone else,” investor Brian Norgard predicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
To point the finger and say, “This is wrong.”
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
She said her intention had been "to mock and point the finger of shame at the behaviour of the cruel leaders on all sides of this atrocious war".
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
The good part was, with so little traffic there'd be no one to point the finger and say which way they'd gone.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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