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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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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

More than a century later, Cornell apparently still has bears turning up on campus — though university officials would now prefer students not butcher them in the dorm kitchen.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

A jury would later hear how Wright had worked as a butcher for several years in the 1970s.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

We have to stand very close and stay very quiet, underneath the awning of the butcher shop.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

"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

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

From BBC Jan. 26, 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

He butchers my last name, but there’s no point correcting him.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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

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

But France had butchered numerous try-scoring opportunities in a surprise defeat by England at Allianz Stadium last time out, and looked intent on making amends.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2025

Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs?

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.

From Science Daily May 9, 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

Lots of folks are going to blame USC and coach Lincoln Riley for butchering a Knute Rockne-born tradition that accounted for 78 straight games, not counting 2020, the COVID-19 year.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 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

She knew about harvesting tobacco and butchering a pig, but she’d never heard the words cervix or biopsy.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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