butchering

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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

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

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

Many parts of the butchering process did not require the skill of JohnnyJoyce and the other butcher aristocrats.

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