A Sacrificial lamb (n.) is like a fuse in a building nobody intends to rewire.
A Sacrificial lamb (n.) is the name that was easiest to fit into the press release.
A Sacrificial lamb (n.) is the coworker volunteered by people who won't look up.
A Sacrificial lamb (n.) is always told it's for the good of the team by someone who stays on it.
A Scapegoat in the text (n.) is a scapegoat the text says it has; a scapegoat of the text is the one that controls the text without being named.
The Scapegoat of the text (n.) cannot appear in the text, though it controls all its themes: it is a mechanism that structures, not a theme.
The Secondary scapegoat (n.) is a textual creation but a trace of the real victim.
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