noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
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I could easily have become a scapegoat .
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He has become a scapegoat and an excuse, so that romantic writers can maintain their vision of a lost golden age.
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They became scapegoats for crimes committed and were widely bruited as potential subversives.
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Too often she became a scapegoat for anger not strictly her due.
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But local authority associations, professional bodies and voluntary groups must not become scapegoats for government complacency and inaction.
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But now, with unemployment touching 10 percent and rising, undeclared work and workers have become a political scapegoat .
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John Lahr made the point to me that Ken became a kind of scapegoat for the problems of the play.
find
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Many of them were, with reason, frightened of the Shahs desperate attempt to find scapegoats to appease the mobs.
make
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He claimed there was a plot to make him a scapegoat for economic failures.
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As do many familiar with the Khobar tragedy, the senior officer believes that President Clinton is making a scapegoat of Schwalier.
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Perhaps he simply died; but perhaps also he was made a scapegoat for his Persian policy.
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Janice was to be made a scapegoat .
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Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat .
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The Boro's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford.
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As a result the women suffer; they are made the scapegoats of damaged Izzat.
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I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The captain was just a scapegoat . The real villains were the people in charge of the shipping company.
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The public is looking for a scapegoat , but no one will be accused until a full inquiry has been held.
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They'll be looking for a scapegoat if things don't go their way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As for the violence in the ancestral cities, it was women who were its most quiet victims and most silent scapegoats.
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Bella was just an excuse; a scapegoat .
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Demagogic governments sometimes paint foreigners as scapegoats, leading to nationalization or laws restricting foreign investment.
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I would have been the scapegoat for anything bad they wrote afterwards.
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If your company or agency anticipates failure, you and your colleagues will always be looking for scapegoats.
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These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat , the rapacious landlords.
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We are not looking for scapegoats in this case.