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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

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

Slate’s Alexis Romero explains the court’s “head-spinning” opinion and how it manages to butcher the legal question at the heart of this case while also cherry-picking history.

From Slate May 14, 2026

“I’m celebrating neither Nowruz nor Fitr this year,” said Hasan, a Tehran butcher who said he saw two-thirds of his revenue wiped out.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2026

The brother, Salim, would be in town with other boys making a kite out of butcher paper, glue, and hand-carved branches.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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 explained all this to one of the company’s Hispanic butchers, who suggested he offer a burrito.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

Joyce bragged that the butchers “had a highly skilled trade and were high priced men.”

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

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

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

"If we saw these marks on animal bones, we'd have no question that they were butchered," says Prof Schulting.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2024

As evening fell, she butchered us a chicken and made us a stew, which she served with a cornmeal mush called ugali.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

It was cold as charity that black morning of butchering day.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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