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slaughterhouse

noun as in killing place

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"In addition to setting up that 20 kilometre zone, we've increased the amount of testing in the slaughterhouses," Muir said.

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The story “After the Haiku Period,” about batty twin sisters who lay siege to a slaughterhouse, reprises the material.

It gave no causality figures, but said medical facilities in the city had been "transformed into human slaughterhouses".

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Among his early legitimate jobs was at a local slaughterhouse dispatching animals with a bolt gun.

The pair later found employment in slaughterhouses in Nebraska, where she suffered a severe leg injury from a cutting blade.

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