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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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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

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

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

With nothing more than a smartphone, a lighting kit and a fridge full of fresh meat, halal butcher Manny Malik from Wolverhampton had around two hundred people tuning into his session.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

She’s going to have to butcher, cook, and chop wood.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

Illegal skin lightening products are being sold in butchers and specialist food shops across the UK as well as online, a watchdog has warned.

From BBC Feb. 17, 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

This was the territory of merchants, of tradesmen, of butchers and tanners and brewsters.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

"We have had individual sheep slaughtered and butchered to a very high standard at the side of the road."

From BBC Aug. 16, 2025

The cow had been butchered and the meat given away to old people.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

Under updated housing rules, students are prohibited from “skinning, butchering, or otherwise processing wild game animals” inside residential buildings.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.

From Science Daily May 9, 2026

Lots of folks are going to blame USC and coach Lincoln Riley for butchering a Knute Rockne-born tradition that accounted for 78 straight games, not counting 2020, the COVID-19 year.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

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

I had the idea Dad had invited him to the butchering to call his bluff and show him up.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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