as in victims
a person or thing taking the blame for others
the sandlot ball players wanted the littlest kid to be the fall guy for the broken window, figuring that he'd have the best chance of escaping punishment
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Noun
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The victims said the thief stole close to $60,000 in cash and dozens of checks that were inside the box.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025 -
And none of those figures includes losses victims were too embarrassed to report.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Outside the Jeoffry section, the poem celebrates goats, wine, the King of Sardinia, the Postmaster General, and on and unpredictably on, compiling one of the more eccentric inventories of creation.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Ackerman Family Farms opens to the public every festival season, offering baby goats for petting and decorative pumpkins for purchase.—
Katherine Laidlaw,
HubSpot,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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No more hand-wringing and excuses by politicians who love to talk while people are terrorized.—
Willie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Communicate value instead of creating excuses.—
Nataly Kelly,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The hypocrisy of a society continually looking for scapegoats to assign blame while refusing to examine its own dark heart provides a semblance of subtext.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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