butcher

Ratko Mladic, the so-called "butcher of Bosnia" who has reportedly died at the age of either 83 or 84, had insisted he was chosen by "fate" to defend the Serb people from a Western onslaught.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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

“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

The butcher would let you pick your own chicken if you wanted to, but Liyana’s mother didn’t.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

According to its website, Johnsons of Old Hurst is a farming business that now features a butchers, a farm shop, tea room, steakhouse and zoo.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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

But he thinks higher supermarket prices might be tempting shoppers into a trip to the butchers.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

The frightening thing was, the rats looked more appetizing than most of what the butchers were selling.

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

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

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

“Man, those singer guys just bombed so hard. I mean, they utterly and totally butchered ‘Hotel California,”’ Ashish said, walking in with two bottles of water.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

Their own retainers made a busy sight with houseboys mixing bowls of water and wine, or sopping water up in sponges, wiping tables to be placed about in hall, or butchering whole carcasses for roasting.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer