point the finger
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Like the authorities, recreational boaters on the lake prefer to point the finger elsewhere.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
It may be easy to point the finger at individual investors, computer algorithms or generalists, but that doesn’t seem to be a satisfactory explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
To point the finger and say, “This is wrong.”
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
However, it is going to be months before we find out who Sir Wyn will point the finger of blame at.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
The good part was, with so little traffic there'd be no one to point the finger and say which way they'd gone.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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