butcher
Example Sentences
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Most are sold at larger markets where they are purchased and fed to slaughter weight, while around 15 percent is processed nearby and sold at Stem's butcher shop.
From Barron's
Fears that artificial intelligence products will butcher the business models of software-as-a-service companies has caused savage selling in their stocks.
From MarketWatch
Podedworna, 40, of Boyer Street in Derby, who was a "skilled butcher", had denied murder but was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday.
From BBC
Police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a "skilled butcher", and her work involved "deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife".
From BBC
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
