scapegoats
Example Sentences
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"Finding scapegoats won't make people warmer," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Many Angolan journalists and activists strongly contest the idea that the protests weren't organic, and say Angolan authorities might be using the Russians as scapegoats.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
This attempted rebranding relied, as always, on scapegoats.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
The irony, which Mr. Crow misses, is that Marat, with his lists of enemies and scapegoats and his lust for punishment, was the ancestor of the modern totalitarians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 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
