butchered

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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

"I was so lucky, in the second-to-last frame I tried a plant and butchered it and fluked a ball. It was fate maybe," Higgins told BBC Sport.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

The site's characteristics align with several others in central Italy where butchered elephant remains appear alongside small stone tools and modified bones.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025

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

She saw piles of butchered chickens and was able to buy as many as she wanted even though they cost three times as much as usual, since free pricing had been decreed.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende