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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
goat .
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Examples
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For as long as we need scapegoats, there will be those who are scape-goated.
Dr. Susan Corso: The Bullying Stops Here Dr. Susan Corso 2010
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The Woman was misled and goated into doing something she now says was wrong.
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Latinos are being demonized and scape-goated in the political discourse this year in ways that are unprecedented and truly alarming.
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For as long as we need scapegoats, there will be those who are scape-goated.
Dr. Susan Corso: The Bullying Stops Here Dr. Susan Corso 2010
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You do that, people are kept occupied, they are proud to send a small amount home to their families, you keep the minority populations from being even more persecuted and scape goated, and you create some aid and entitlement agencies to top it off so that you can ride it out till things pick up.
The New Deal and the Great Depression, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Bush Admistration, along with McCain, has, at every turn, tried to derail this overseas trip for Obama; after they “goated” him into taking it.
The Cancellation of Obama’s Troop Visit - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He isn't concerned about the other roof-goated businesses, he says, because his has "a lot more to offer than what's on the roof."
Lars Johnson Has Goats on His Roof and a Stable of Lawyers to Prove It 2010
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When economic disaster hit, the rulers became self-righteous, persecuted and scape-goated the Jews and confiscated their assets.
Dr. Behzad Mohit: Greece: Is It the First Domino to Fall? 2010
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Don't be goated into a divisive match with Hillary supporters-we are better than that.
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I agree that Shuster is being scape-goated to pacify some of the outrage at Chris Matthews 'history of sexist remarks.
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