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"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

Dressed in jeans and fashionable sneakers, Burnham, who lives a few miles away, listened as Peter Cain, a local butcher, told him his Labour Party had become “a little bit complacent.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The second stop is the surplus meat section, tucked in an unassuming refrigerator beside the butcher counter.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

We didn’t have toys in Dubai, so we made kites out of sticks and butcher paper.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Leicestershire County Council announced the £131m road would be named in honour of the meaty treat, a speciality of the town's butchers, at a ceremony on Thursday.

From BBC ● May 14, 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

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

I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

She says she has been left with a massive scar which has left her feeling "butchered".

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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

The LaPrele site in Converse County preserves the remains of a killed or scavenged sub-adult mammoth and an associated camp occupied during the time the animal was butchered almost 13,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

We butchered it and cooked it over a fire.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

The site also contained stone tools along with the remains of elephants and other animals, suggesting the area was once used for butchering prey near the edge of an ancient lake.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 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

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

“There was a time when butchering a site was regulated.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera