butcher

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

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

The accused has blood on his clothes, but he is a butcher; the testimony is explicit, but the witness is unreliable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

But he thinks higher supermarket prices might be tempting shoppers into a trip to the butchers.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Manchester Farms Quail – Quail can be surprisingly tough to track down, even at specialty butchers, but Manchester Farms makes this delicious little bird totally accessible for home cooks.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

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

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

I thought of all my friends who had their name butchered as children and even adults — “Joe-zay,” “Josie” or pronounced correctly but in an exaggerated tone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

The camera holds on a tight shot of a tomato being butchered by a dull kitchen knife, juice and seeds spilling out as the fruit splits down its sides.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

“Mr. Porfirio Mondaba?” the lady said, and it sounded like she totally butchered his name.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Cornell University has clarified that its dorm kitchens are for cooking food — not butchering bears.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

Lots of folks are going to blame USC and coach Lincoln Riley for butchering a Knute Rockne-born tradition that accounted for 78 straight games, not counting 2020, the COVID-19 year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

An automobile at a butchering like to take everybody’s mind off business.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck