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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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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

I recently found A5 Wagyu striploins available at a specialty butcher near me in New York City, paying $64 for a half pound cut that served two.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

A meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

And that I’d just compromised her identity this morning at the butcher shop—well, I felt a knot tighten in my stomach.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The volunteers “were butchers, bakers, candlestick makers who then fought fire when the fire bell rang,” Mr. Winkle says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Leicestershire County Council announced the £131m road would be named in honour of the meaty treat, a speciality of the town's butchers, at a ceremony on Thursday.

From BBC ● May 14, 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

Illegal skin lightening products are being sold in butchers and specialist food shops across the UK as well as online, a watchdog has warned.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Chaos—candy butchers vaulting over counters, workmen staggering out from under tent flaps, roustabouts racing headlong across the lot.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

"Life isn't all a calm river, it's complicated, but we grit our teeth and we work," she tells me leaning over shelves of butchered pork.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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

In 2024, Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a 9-year-old girl and her family after sheriff’s deputies seized her goat so it could be butchered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

As evening fell, she butchered us a chicken and made us a stew, which she served with a cornmeal mush called ugali.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

A host is also responsible for introducing every comic onstage, mentioning their credits and not butchering their name — all while hoping they actually make it on time for their spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

But Swift’s interests went far beyond the butchering process.

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


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