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scapegoats

noun as in person who takes blame for

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The industry group representing staffing firms says partners sometimes use them as scapegoats.

Progressive ideas, as usual, will be convenient scapegoats for the failures of Democratic Party elites.

From Salon

This is in keeping with a long-standing tendency to make immigrants scapegoats for a variety of social problems, including alcoholism and disease.

Min Aung Hlaing said it is “disheartening to witness youths becoming scapegoats of insurgents, misled by false narrative propaganda through media sabotage.”

While politicians may drum up anger or use people of color as scapegoats for this difficulty, most find it easier to rejigger the dream into something more accessible.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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