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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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The bread store was next to the bakery, and the butcher shop’s floor was thick with sawdust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"The electricity is a killer, it's a big one, it's mega money. It's just out of control now," added Kevin Evans, a butcher and business owner.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

More than a century later, Cornell apparently still has bears turning up on campus — though university officials would now prefer students not butcher them in the dorm kitchen.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

They’d hunt one down, butcher the animal, cut up the meat, and preserve it in jars they sealed shut in boiling water.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

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

He remembers about six butchers being in competition in Saltcoats at that stage.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

Local butchers and farmers have been brought together to help feed the 15,000-strong workforce.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

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

The chicken is brought in whole before being butchered and brined in-house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Animal remains were also placed in the grave, including a butchered calf.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026

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 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

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

Under updated housing rules, students are prohibited from “skinning, butchering, or otherwise processing wild game animals” inside residential buildings.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Early humans often used bone implements to sharpen the cutting edges of handaxes and tools used for butchering animals.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 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

“There was a time when butchering a site was regulated.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera


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