butchered
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On Stóra Dímun, sheep cannot be kept indoors—so large numbers are butchered before the winter storms begin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 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
She says she has been left with a massive scar which has left her feeling "butchered".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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
As evening fell, she butchered us a chicken and made us a stew, which she served with a cornmeal mush called ugali.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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