Sentence examples for the scapegoat from inspiring English sources

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the scapegoat

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In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.

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"I'm the scapegoat for everything".

Michael is the scapegoat".

I'm the scapegoat for their actions".

"The worker can't be the scapegoat.

Why make deregulation the scapegoat?

Reason itself was made the scapegoat.

The scapegoat, after all, is a goat.

"We become the scapegoat," he said.

But Healey has become the scapegoat.

"And he was really the scapegoat.

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And the scapegoat-money-satisfaction circle is repeated.

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