butcher
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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
Robin, aged 82, worked as a butcher in Oldbury for 68 years.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
A meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Store closed", reads the sign next to Alina's butcher shop.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
I’d bargained with Mr. Zenger, the German butcher, and come home with gray mutton.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
But he thinks higher supermarket prices might be tempting shoppers into a trip to the butchers.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 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
Thomas had gone ahead; she could see him far beyond the butchers.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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 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
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
No part of this animal has been butchered, Theon realized.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Cornell University has clarified that its dorm kitchens are for cooking food — not butchering bears.
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
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 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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