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'scapegoat for' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about someone who is made to wrongly take the blame for something that they did not do. For example, "The CEO was made a scapegoat for the company's financial mismanagement."
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"I'm the scapegoat for everything".
I'm the scapegoat for their actions".
"I believe I'm just a scapegoat for a larger conflict.
They have become the scapegoat for state schools' failings.
Making any race the scapegoat for violence is over-simplistic.
I was made a scapegoat for a catalogue of errors.
You want a scapegoat for society's ills, someone to blame?
He told Bild: "I was the big scapegoat for them.
So did Martínez, who identified a scapegoat for a setback.
Socrates was, I think, a scapegoat for Athens's disappointment.
So don't make them a scapegoat for our problems.
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