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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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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

Dressed in jeans and fashionable sneakers, Burnham, who lives a few miles away, listened as Peter Cain, a local butcher, told him his Labour Party had become “a little bit complacent.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

The second stop is the surplus meat section, tucked in an unassuming refrigerator beside the butcher counter.

From Salon May 22, 2026

Afterward we asked them to make a contribution to a society for the protection of old horses—they were rescued from the butcher and put out to graze at Cherry Tree Farm.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

"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

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

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

He butchers my last name, but there’s no point correcting him.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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 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

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

"We have had individual sheep slaughtered and butchered to a very high standard at the side of the road."

From BBC Aug. 16, 2025

Archaeologists have discovered sites where entire herds were butchered annually in such ways.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

From Science Daily May 9, 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

Like Joyce, Swift had learned the butchering process from start to finish, entering the trade as his brother’s apprentice in 1855 at the age of fourteen in a little town on Cape Cod.

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




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