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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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A meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Batista Filho’s grandfather was working as a butcher in the Brazilian countryside when he established the company in 1953.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The first Palme winner, “Marty,” a romantic drama starring Ernest Borgnine as a lonely, middle-aged butcher longing for love, won the Oscar for best picture.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

What with his bloody hands, red face and spotted apron, he looked like a real butcher.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

He the BBC he had been working at a butchers in Ghana's capital city, Accra, when he first started to notice changes.

From BBC Jul. 28, 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

Von Ungern-Sternberg was working for the Freiburg Chamber of Skilled Crafts in southwest Germany, a trade body that represents skilled workers, from bricklayers and carpenters, to butchers and bakers, and the companies that employ them.

From BBC Mar. 22, 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

In a strong voice, he prays, "Lord, give us peace, break the yoke of the Nazi butchers, make us free."

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

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

A couple of times each year the family bought a side of butchered beef and stored it in a large freezer in their basement.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Cornell University has clarified that its dorm kitchens are for cooking food — not butchering bears.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

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

One term for the scams is pig butchering, because the scammers “fatten up” their targets by entangling them in romantic relationships online and dangling bogus financial schemes, then “butcher” them by disappearing with their money.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 14, 2025

The first full-time job for many refugees in Clarkston was cleaning and butchering just-killed chickens at local chicken processing plants.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John




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