butchering

Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Lots of folks are going to blame USC and coach Lincoln Riley for butchering a Knute Rockne-born tradition that accounted for 78 straight games, not counting 2020, the COVID-19 year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

One term for the scams is pig butchering, because the scammers “fatten up” their targets by entangling them in romantic relationships online and dangling bogus financial schemes, then “butcher” them by disappearing with their money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025

Like Joyce, Swift had learned the butchering process from start to finish, entering the trade as his brother’s apprentice in 1855 at the age of fourteen in a little town on Cape Cod.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield