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slaughterhouse

[slaw-ter-haus] / ˈslɔ tərˌhaʊs /
NOUN
killing place
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They’re not selling it and sending it to a slaughterhouse.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Realizing that they’re headed to the slaughterhouse, the animals rebel against the humans, save themselves, and reinhabit the farm, establishing their own system of checks and balances to ensure their survival.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

He's written about slaughterhouse workers, the family behind Tyson Foods, the value of a 7-Eleven Slurpee, and the failed supermarket megamerger between Kroger and Albertsons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

Companies are snapping up Vernon properties and upgrading them, adding advanced cooling systems to old office buildings and filling a shuttered slaughterhouse that once housed hogs, with advanced chips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

I filled it With wet dirt, This upside-down turtle, This slaughterhouse For chiles and tomatoes, The thousand sheets of onion.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

Somehow, even if they do, there is a successive chain of Agriculture Department inspectors, including at slaughterhouses and things like that, that are going to notice a gaping wound on an animal.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

They are sold to feedlots that fatten them up before being shipped to slaughterhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

"In addition to setting up that 20 kilometre zone, we've increased the amount of testing in the slaughterhouses," Muir said.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

The pair later found employment in slaughterhouses in Nebraska, where she suffered a severe leg injury from a cutting blade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Since the whites had refrigerators, their butchers bought the meat from commercial slaughterhouses in Texarkana and sold it to the wealthy even in the peak of summer.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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