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Recent Examples of scapegoatThe newcomers make convenient scapegoats for Egyptians’ hardships, rights groups say.—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 Daniel Jones is being used as this year’s scapegoat.—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025 The other side: Responding to the analysis, a RealPage spokesperson told Axios that the company is being made a scapegoat for broader housing policy failures.—Kyle Stokes, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025 Schools have become scapegoats for both good and bad reasons.—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 28 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scapegoat
One of my personal concerns is the tendency, particularly in Germany, to focus too much in films on the perpetrators, not the victims, like in Downfall or the recent Wannsee Conference adaptation.
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Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
Several other fire victims are likely in the same situation.
Kudos on firing the assistant coaches as scape goats for the humiliating mistake of letting Xavier Mckinney walk away into an All-Pro season and forcing them to scheme around an unreliable Banks.
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Dan Duggan,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
Things only get stranger from there, involving everything from an office goat pen to a terrifyingly ominous dance party.
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