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scapegoat

B2 verb
us /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt/

scapegoat /ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/ nghĩa là đổ lỗi, bắt làm vật tế thần

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  1. đổ lỗi, bắt làm vật tế thần

    To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

    intransitive · transitive

    People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.

    Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to scapegoat.

    The question we should be asking is: who benefits when migrants and refugees are scapegoated for anger about housing?

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