butcher
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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 jury would later hear how Wright had worked as a butcher for several years in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
One French butcher offers steaks old enough to apply for a driver’s permit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Store closed", reads the sign next to Alina's butcher shop.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The butcher turned to plunge the body into a steaming pot, then deftly stripped the feathers off, wrapping the body in white paper.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"I walked to the event, waved into the local shops, the butchers and sweet shop and they're all waving back," he said.
From BBC ● May 17, 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
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
At the end of life, a fallen brother was honored by his fellow butchers with a last tribute: an elaborate funeral wreath in the shape of a broken cleaver.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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
She says she has been left with a massive scar which has left her feeling "butchered".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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
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
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
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
The first full-time job for many refugees in Clarkston was cleaning and butchering just-killed chickens at local chicken processing plants.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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