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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 Ghanaian-owned butcher shop down the street is where I go for halal chicken wings and thighs.

From Salon May 22, 2026

When the butcher returns, he's carrying a white paper parcel.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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

Craig Hammond, who runs a butchers in Matfield, said he was planning to close on Thursday, saying it was impossible to stay open for "hygiene reasons."

From BBC Apr. 2, 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

Just one of the half-knowledgeable butchers who plied their trade among the desperate of the Barrel.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

Louis Bielle-Biarrey, scorer of two tries, butchered another with a nonchalant pass slung over the top of Peato Mauvaka.

From BBC Feb. 8, 2025

A couple of times each year the family bought a side of butchered beef and stored it in a large freezer in their basement.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

The site also contained stone tools along with the remains of elephants and other animals, suggesting the area was once used for butchering prey near the edge of an ancient lake.

From Science Daily May 24, 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

From his butchering, he’d been a country boy.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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