butcher

Ratko Mladic, the so-called "butcher of Bosnia" who has reportedly died at the age of either 83 or 84, had insisted he was chosen by "fate" to defend the Serb people from a Western onslaught.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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

Robin, aged 82, worked as a butcher in Oldbury for 68 years.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

More than a century later, Cornell apparently still has bears turning up on campus — though university officials would now prefer students not butcher them in the dorm kitchen.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

I was crouching down to avoid the fist of the butcher, but was so happy to hear the voice of Mrs. Wishart letting us go first.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

But he thinks higher supermarket prices might be tempting shoppers into a trip to the butchers.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Manchester Farms Quail – Quail can be surprisingly tough to track down, even at specialty butchers, but Manchester Farms makes this delicious little bird totally accessible for home cooks.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

To drum up excitement, Fitzpatrick and Foster tapped talented men to lead—one to solidify support among Johnny Joyce's cattle butchers, another to organize blacks.

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

The chicken is brought in whole before being butchered and brined in-house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

The 1987 movie features Schwarzenegger’s Dutch leading a multiracial band of bros on a black ops mission to eliminate guerrillas in a Central American jungle, only to be butchered by an invisible stalker from space.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2025

Right there in the wood, we kindled a fire and butchered the boar.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

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

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Early humans often used bone implements to sharpen the cutting edges of handaxes and tools used for butchering animals.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 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

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

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