lay the blame/responsibility on
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Examples of lay the blame/responsibility on in a Sentence
Marc Brown, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2024
Mystique was pretending to be an X-Man in order to lay the blame on them and bring about the annihilation of all mutants.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
The latest Republican attack ads hit inflation and economic uncertainty hard and lay the blame on Democratic malfeasance, not the complexities of international commerce and conflict.
—Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
The White House staff led by Regan initiated a damage-control plan to wall off the president and lay the blame on Mr. McFarlane, who was no longer in the White House and lacked the influence and stature of friends such as Shultz and Weinberger.
—Jerrold Schecter, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
Which is not to lay the blame on any one country—we’ve made this mess together as a species.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
When asked on Fox Business whether Trump was at fault, McDaniel refused to lay the blame on him.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2022
During an interview with the Riverfront Times last month, Johnson expressed no bitterness toward the officer and lay the blame on himself.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
The White House continues to lay the blame on special circumstances and not an underlying problem.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
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