butchering

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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

He then breaks into song, trying his hand at the chant and butchering the delivery.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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

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

Then I got the butchering knives out and we went together into the snow field and cut up the cow.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier