butcher
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"Store closed", reads the sign next to Alina's butcher shop.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“My grandmother would take me for a walk, and we’d stop into the butcher and the international grocery,” See said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
My dad was a butcher, my mother a butcher’s helper and then a junior-high-school teacher after my father died.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The Ghanaian-owned butcher shop down the street is where I go for halal chicken wings and thighs.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
There was the butcher, hanging up a big hunk of meat to cure outside his store.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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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
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
Local butchers and farmers have been brought together to help feed the 15,000-strong workforce.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
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
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
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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
There's brilliance but there's also painful weakness - soft beginnings to Tests, panic when well on top, overplaying, error counts, poor discipline adding pressure, players going off script, chances butchered, lack of mental resilience.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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
The 1987 movie features Schwarzenegger’s Dutch leading a multiracial band of bros on a black ops mission to eliminate guerrillas in a Central American jungle, only to be butchered by an invisible stalker from space.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2025
Wild ran for his rifle and brought the seal down with one bullet, and when the eleven-foot-long animal was butchered, the men discovered fifty undigested fish inside its stomach.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
We’ve come a long way from 1992, when Bill Clinton bypassed prime-time and Sunday political shows by wearing sunglasses and butchering “Heartbreak Hotel” on a saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 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
An automobile at a butchering like to take everybody’s mind off business.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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