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butchery

[booch-uh-ree] / ˈbʊtʃ ə ri /


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Kakuta's restaurant has its own butchery, supplying bear meat dishes to a nearby hotel.

From Barron's Dec. 24, 2025

The butchery signal is clear as well:"At Namorotukunan, cutmarks link stone tools to meat eating, revealing a broadened diet that endured across changing landscapes," said Frances Forrest at Fairfield University.

From Science Daily Nov. 4, 2025

It was there that I came to see the possibilities in a robust whole-animal butchery program and a more radical approach to sourcing ingredients.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2025

Crawley's 189 at Old Trafford, an unstoppable butchery of baggy green, was one of the great Ashes knocks anywhere, ever.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2024

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

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

So, with sheeps' innards not exactly standard fare in the butcheries of Brazil, I packed two haggis in my luggage when returning from a Christmas vacation in Scotland, and began planning the big event.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity.

From Time Magazine Archive

How is it that Hungary has forgotten the hangings and the butcheries of the sixties, and still works within the Austrian Empire?

From Home Rule Second Edition by Harold Spender




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