butchery
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The family has 200 animals, which will be sold to Morrison's butchery.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
That film’s director, John Huston, joined Jimmy Stewart and fellow Directors Guild of America members, including George Lucas, in accusing Turner and other colorizers of cultural butchery.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Kakuta's restaurant has its own butchery, supplying bear meat dishes to a nearby hotel.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Signs of butchery on the bones, along with stone tools and other evidence, indicate that Taguatagua 3 represents a temporary camp established around the task of processing the large carcass.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
Talk of butchery reduced Samwell Tarly to speech-lessness.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Bennett-Parker said she researched some of Mused’s 14 other butcheries, calling neighbors and even visiting Philadelphia.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2019
Horse-eating, or hippophagy, became popular in Europe in the 19th century, when famines caused several governments to license horse butcheries.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011
He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
We hold back from the leap of despair that would let us see that human society always carries within it the capacity to commit such butcheries and think well of itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the alternate butcheries the last and the worst is that which is inseparably associated with the names of James and Jeffreys.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
