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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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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

The 87-year-old former butcher has made new friends through the group.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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 meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

We didn’t have toys in Dubai, so we made kites out of sticks and butcher paper.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

He the BBC he had been working at a butchers in Ghana's capital city, Accra, when he first started to notice changes.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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

Thomas had gone ahead; she could see him far beyond the butchers.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

There's brilliance but there's also painful weakness - soft beginnings to Tests, panic when well on top, overplaying, error counts, poor discipline adding pressure, players going off script, chances butchered, lack of mental resilience.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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

A couple of times each year the family bought a side of butchered beef and stored it in a large freezer in their basement.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Under updated housing rules, students are prohibited from “skinning, butchering, or otherwise processing wild game animals” inside residential buildings.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

The site also contained stone tools along with the remains of elephants and other animals, suggesting the area was once used for butchering prey near the edge of an ancient lake.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

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

And they ate better than they had in years, for no landlord would serve the King anything less than his finest offerings, even if that meant butchering a tenant farmer’s last suckling pig.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo


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