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sacrificial lamb





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However, he admitted to feeling like a "sacrificial lamb" after a framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund, which funds LIV, was announced in June last year.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2024

“Using her chancellor as a sacrificial lamb may not prevent her becoming the shortest-serving prime minister of all time.”

From New York Times Oct. 14, 2022

Diaz, they felt, was little more than a sacrificial lamb at the altar of pachuquismo.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2022

“This has been handled so terribly on so many levels, there will be a sacrificial lamb here or there.”

From Seattle Times May 28, 2022

Take me instead, I’ll be your sacrificial lamb.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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