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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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It was a strange little society of meats that belonged neither behind the butcher counter nor among the premium lunch meats — the thin-sliced turkey in its tidy package, the glossy hunk of honey ham.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

A jury would later hear how Wright had worked as a butcher for several years in the 1970s.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

"Store closed", reads the sign next to Alina's butcher shop.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The accused has blood on his clothes, but he is a butcher; the testimony is explicit, but the witness is unreliable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

According to its website, Johnsons of Old Hurst is a farming business that now features a butchers, a farm shop, tea room, steakhouse and zoo.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

"I walked to the event, waved into the local shops, the butchers and sweet shop and they're all waving back," he said.

From BBC May 17, 2026

The government decided not to back a previous proposal for more businesses including butchers and fishmongers to open on the public holiday.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

He studied at what is now known as the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, interned at Alps Salami in Queens and apprenticed with butchers in Tuscany.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

"There's also a great gaggle of bakers, butchers, and greengrocers clamoring to be heard."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Animal remains were also placed in the grave, including a butchered calf.

From Science Daily Mar. 9, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

"I was so lucky, in the second-to-last frame I tried a plant and butchered it and fluked a ball. It was fate maybe," Higgins told BBC Sport.

From BBC Jan. 15, 2026

In 2024, Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a 9-year-old girl and her family after sheriff’s deputies seized her goat so it could be butchered.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2025

For the first time since Mr. Grote butchered my hair months ago, I look almost pretty.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Cornell University has clarified that its dorm kitchens are for cooking food — not butchering bears.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.

From Science Daily May 9, 2026

The best of them, such as “Goodbye, It’s Over,” about the butchering of a pig, rail against the cheapness of life.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

A host is also responsible for introducing every comic onstage, mentioning their credits and not butchering their name — all while hoping they actually make it on time for their spot.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2025

Ash looked back at the carcass of the stag, and saw that the dogs were being held off now, and one of the men was approaching with his kit of knives to begin the butchering.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo




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