abattoir
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And, just incidentally, are all high-profile investigations of the future destined to be fodder for the kind of intrusive online “detectives” who were drawn to the city of Moscow like flies to an abattoir?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Kashif suspects the BSU had never really been there to support him, describing it as "an abattoir".
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
In addition to raising the animal, 700 liters to 1,000 liters of water is used per animal in the abattoir for washing and hygiene.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023
Now that Congress has created one, the drug companies are squealing like pigs being led to the abattoir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
A million paleo-Indians, Martin argued, could easily form a wave of hunters that would radiate out from the southern end of the ice-free corridor, turning the continent into an abattoir.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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