butcher
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Ratko Mladic, the so-called "butcher of Bosnia" who has reportedly died at the age of either 83 or 84, had insisted he was chosen by "fate" to defend the Serb people from a Western onslaught.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
I recently found A5 Wagyu striploins available at a specialty butcher near me in New York City, paying $64 for a half pound cut that served two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
A meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Naano and Nana Abu came over a little while ago to bring us some fresh kabobs they made with the meat from the butcher shop.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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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
Craig Hammond, who runs a butchers in Matfield, said he was planning to close on Thursday, saying it was impossible to stay open for "hygiene reasons."
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
He studied at what is now known as the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, interned at Alps Salami in Queens and apprenticed with butchers in Tuscany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
But he thinks higher supermarket prices might be tempting shoppers into a trip to the butchers.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
But the skilled butchers were now a small part of a huge, mostly unskilled labor pool.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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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
There's brilliance but there's also painful weakness - soft beginnings to Tests, panic when well on top, overplaying, error counts, poor discipline adding pressure, players going off script, chances butchered, lack of mental resilience.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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
I thought of all my friends who had their name butchered as children and even adults — “Joe-zay,” “Josie” or pronounced correctly but in an exaggerated tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
That night I went to bed and I got absolutely butchered by mosquitoes.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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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
The best of them, such as “Goodbye, It’s Over,” about the butchering of a pig, rail against the cheapness of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Found in the Edgcote area in Northamptonshire, it has a sharp edge likely designed for butchering animals.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
“They’re butchering the deer. I think that Parsa intends to invite all of Jilin here tonight.”
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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