slaughterer
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Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer".
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2023
Jordan Monkarsh is the son of a Jewish butcher, who fled Poland in the 1930s — and who himself was the son of a ritual slaughterer in the old country.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2019
“They go from being a slaughterer of mice to a couch potato,” says Eva Maria-Geigl, an evolutionary geneticist who oversaw the study with molecular biologist Thierry Grange, both at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 19, 2017
In a play-through shown onstage we see the bald slaughterer sporting not only a beard, but a young son, who he’s trying to teach how to hunt deer.
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2016
The whimsical fate that seems to play with the destinies of the wild kindreds had chosen to let him save one flock from the slaughterer, and expiate his blameless treason.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
