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Example sentences for: scapegoat

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The article claims Schwalier did everything right, and that Cohen simply sought a scapegoat.
Whatever happened to the military's traditional heartless approach of finding a scapegoat?
Charles Krauthammer makes this case in the post-election issue of the Weekly Standard . ("No Excuses, No Alibis," declares the editors' self-congratulatory headline, as if pinning the entire blame on one scapegoat deserves a medal for intellectual valor.)
As a result, convenience gambling is emerging as the kind of gambling that everyone can dislike, a juicy target for opponents and a scapegoat for supporters of more acceptable kinds of wagering.
According to Wolf she embodies the nascent sexuality that pubescent girls are trained to fear and loathe, so we turn her into a scapegoat.