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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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Robin, aged 82, worked as a butcher in Oldbury for 68 years.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

"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

But there were the butcher priests, too, performing divination of animal entrails, and the Doomsayers on their stilts, crying End Times from behind their skeleton masks.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Illegal skin lightening products are being sold in butchers and specialist food shops across the UK as well as online, a watchdog has warned.

From BBC Feb. 17, 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

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

Add to the fact that they butchered a clutch of chances in last year's loss at Twickenham and there is plenty to put right for France.

From BBC Mar. 14, 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

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

All the city’s wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

A group is butchering Journey, which is what you should expect during karaoke—awkward singing.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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