stockyard

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The price of the grilled rib-eye might have you choking, but the $90 stockyard — er, platter — of blushing beef, sliced for easy feasting, could easily feed a bunkhouse.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2019

When they make out their feed budgets, they count on their herds being able to forage, rather than eat in the stockyard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2015

Grandin sees the plant layout as she speaks, adding the hand-cranked submarine doors gleaned from war movies, the pumps from every stockyard and farm she’s seen since she was a child.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013

Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield