scapegoat
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"Rwanda must not be held as a scapegoat for what is happening in Congo forever," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“He’s our scapegoat: the hedge fund guy who bought the mom-and-pop shop.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Plaintiff lawyers say they are being made the scapegoat for a problem of the insurers’ own making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The Real Madrid midfielder has faced criticism recently for some of his England performances but has previously claimed he was made a "scapegoat" in the camp.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The soldier who used Day as a convenient scapegoat.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
"Finding scapegoats won't make people warmer," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Whatever the case, more scapegoats are almost certainly on the way.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
Kenyan human rights activist Hussein Khalid urged the government to take urgent measures to protect them, saying that Tanzanian authorities were using Kenyans as "scapegoats for the atrocities committed by police against Tanzanians".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
They organize themselves in opposition to a class of front-runners—those benefiting the most from the economy—with ire often left over for scapegoats, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Among the many scapegoats chosen were elderly women living alone, who were charged with witchcraft: Kepler’s mother was carried away in the middle of the night in a laundry chest.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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