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
The chicken is brought in whole before being butchered and brined in-house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Add to the fact that they butchered a clutch of chances in last year's loss at Twickenham and there is plenty to put right for France.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
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 cow had been butchered and the meat given away to old people.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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