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Today, our response to the temporary closing of slaughter plants can be a permanent opening of our dietary habits to actual plants.

From Fortune

Enraged, the meat lobby retaliated by having producers again cease sending animals to slaughter.

From Fortune

After all, Faith says, massive herbivores like these rhinos were slow to breed and it wouldn’t take a “catastrophic slaughter” for humans to make a dent in the population.

If the outcome in certain cases is less reprehensible than outright slaughter, it is only because natural selection only sometimes works to reduce the denominator of the “fitness ratio.”

Plant outbreaks gummed up the meat supply chain, creating a backlog of animals awaiting slaughter.

From Quartz

To most of the world, Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator, responsible for the slaughter of 100,000 or more.

Getting people to pay attention to a possible new round of slaughter in the region proved difficult.

Reform first came in 1935 when Lenora Slaughter was hired to re-invent the pageant as its new director.

In her white prom dress, Carrie is like a lamb to the slaughter, the blood besmirching her innocence.

When Dan Honig was getting ready to slaughter a steer for the first time, he expected to feel devastated.

Its record is largely that of battles and sieges, of the brave adventure of discovery and the vexed slaughter of the nations.

The city hell hounds sprang to meet them and the slaughter of inoffensive Europeans began in Darya Gunj.

The farewell and the mourning are finished by the slaughter of dogs, that the dying man may have forerunners in the other world.

This slaughter is accompanied by the tabagie and what follows it—namely, the singing and dancing.

It went hard with him to slaughter the faithful creature, who knew him, and came towards him at the first sound of his voice.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slaughter, such as: annihilation, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, and destruction.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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