butcher
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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
I recently found A5 Wagyu striploins available at a specialty butcher near me in New York City, paying $64 for a half pound cut that served two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
A meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
She turned, looking around, and caught him peering out from behind the butcher shop, way on the other end of the square.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
He the BBC he had been working at a butchers in Ghana's capital city, Accra, when he first started to notice changes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
"I walked to the event, waved into the local shops, the butchers and sweet shop and they're all waving back," he said.
From BBC ● May 17, 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 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
We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
"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
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
Sometimes Shorty wound up practically butchered, not from her long powder-pink fingernails, but from all that hardware.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Under updated housing rules, students are prohibited from “skinning, butchering, or otherwise processing wild game animals” inside residential buildings.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 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
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
Ash looked back at the carcass of the stag, and saw that the dogs were being held off now, and one of the men was approaching with his kit of knives to begin the butchering.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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