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Recent Examples of scapegoat
Americans deserve leaders who understand that immigrants are the lifeblood of our country — not a political scapegoat.
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Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
In our opinion, Chief Crowley is being made a scapegoat, and she is being terminated for telling the truth.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
The Old Testament story of the scapegoat—a goat burdened by human sins and exiled into the wilderness in order to purify the community—inspired Hepburn Ferrer’s latest body of work.
—airmail.news, 25 Jan. 2025
The Chicago Sun-Times reported then that Sosa had left in the seventh inning, and Sosa told the paper he was being made a scapegoat for the team’s collapse.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
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Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
In our opinion, Chief Crowley is being made a scapegoat, and she is being terminated for telling the truth.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
The Old Testament story of the scapegoat—a goat burdened by human sins and exiled into the wilderness in order to purify the community—inspired Hepburn Ferrer’s latest body of work.
—airmail.news, 25 Jan. 2025
The Chicago Sun-Times reported then that Sosa had left in the seventh inning, and Sosa told the paper he was being made a scapegoat for the team’s collapse.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scapegoat
Noun
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Authorities struggled to identify and process all of the victims.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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Paying ransoms does not guarantee a return to normal business operations, and 35% of victims who paid a ransom, according to the in-house analysis of data, either did not receive decryption keys or received corrupted keys.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Luckily, Rag & Bone’s hidden sale on Gilt, a low-key site with discounts on designer finds, is a great excuse to start a spring closet cleanout.—
Melony Forcier,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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Now, with all this money invested in his side of the ball — with more to come in the draft — the reasonable excuses will vanish.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The wise-cracking goat escorts the teen on a journey to search for the afikomen, traveling back through layers of seders past, to the original biblical Exodus night.—
Penny Schwartz,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Mar. 2025
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Muslims mark the event by slaughtering sheep or goats.—
Reuters,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Scapegoat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scapegoat. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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