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butcher

[booch-er] / ˈbʊtʃ ər /






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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

Dressed in jeans and fashionable sneakers, Burnham, who lives a few miles away, listened as Peter Cain, a local butcher, told him his Labour Party had become “a little bit complacent.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

The second stop is the surplus meat section, tucked in an unassuming refrigerator beside the butcher counter.

From Salon May 22, 2026

Scanning the buildings lining the street, my eyes land on a butcher shop.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The volunteers “were butchers, bakers, candlestick makers who then fought fire when the fire bell rang,” Mr. Winkle says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

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

Manchester Farms Quail – Quail can be surprisingly tough to track down, even at specialty butchers, but Manchester Farms makes this delicious little bird totally accessible for home cooks.

From Salon Dec. 4, 2025

He explained all this to one of the company’s Hispanic butchers, who suggested he offer a burrito.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

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

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Add to the fact that they butchered a clutch of chances in last year's loss at Twickenham and there is plenty to put right for France.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

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

The camera holds on a tight shot of a tomato being butchered by a dull kitchen knife, juice and seeds spilling out as the fruit splits down its sides.

From Salon Mar. 2, 2025

The LaPrele site in Converse County preserves the remains of a killed or scavenged sub-adult mammoth and an associated camp occupied during the time the animal was butchered almost 13,000 years ago.

From Science Daily Nov. 27, 2024

No part of this animal has been butchered, Theon realized.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Early humans often used bone implements to sharpen the cutting edges of handaxes and tools used for butchering animals.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

We’ve come a long way from 1992, when Bill Clinton bypassed prime-time and Sunday political shows by wearing sunglasses and butchering “Heartbreak Hotel” on a saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 16, 2025

A host is also responsible for introducing every comic onstage, mentioning their credits and not butchering their name — all while hoping they actually make it on time for their spot.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2025

The fleecing of Kevin, who ProPublica agreed to identify by first name only, was a textbook example of pig butchering.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2025

Then I got the butchering knives out and we went together into the snow field and cut up the cow.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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