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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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"The electricity is a killer, it's a big one, it's mega money. It's just out of control now," added Kevin Evans, a butcher and business owner.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Just when you think you’ve made it through, the exhibition has one last gruesome touch: To escape, you have to push your way through a set of bloody butcher curtains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

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

Helmuth doesn't know many Jews, besides Benno and Benno's father, who owns a butcher shop.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

Local butchers and farmers have been brought together to help feed the 15,000-strong workforce.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

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

He explained all this to one of the company’s Hispanic butchers, who suggested he offer a burrito.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

And so an impromptu parade is thrown together, after which the animals are led to the menagerie and the candy butchers and other concessionaires set up their wares.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

The site's characteristics align with several others in central Italy where butchered elephant remains appear alongside small stone tools and modified bones.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025

I thought of all my friends who had their name butchered as children and even adults — “Joe-zay,” “Josie” or pronounced correctly but in an exaggerated tone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

Orange Juice, with huffs and lip-smacking noises, turned away, and the hyena lowered its head and retreated behind the zebra’s butchered body.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

Found in the Edgcote area in Northamptonshire, it has a sharp edge likely designed for butchering animals.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

“They’re butchering the deer. I think that Parsa intends to invite all of Jilin here tonight.”

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo


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