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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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Just when you think you’ve made it through, the exhibition has one last gruesome touch: To escape, you have to push your way through a set of bloody butcher curtains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was a strange little society of meats that belonged neither behind the butcher counter nor among the premium lunch meats — the thin-sliced turkey in its tidy package, the glossy hunk of honey ham.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

With nothing more than a smartphone, a lighting kit and a fridge full of fresh meat, halal butcher Manny Malik from Wolverhampton had around two hundred people tuning into his session.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Store closed", reads the sign next to Alina's butcher shop.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 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

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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

Others teamed up to open training centers, preparing their not-yet-married Irish sisters to become teachers and nurses and their Irish brothers to prosper as electricians, carpenters, and butchers.

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

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 was so lucky, in the second-to-last frame I tried a plant and butchered it and fluked a ball. It was fate maybe," Higgins told BBC Sport.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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

No part of this animal has been butchered, Theon realized.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

The best of them, such as “Goodbye, It’s Over,” about the butchering of a pig, rail against the cheapness of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

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

Well, to lose the only meat we had left from last winter’s hog butchering was bad enough.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson


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