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slaughterhouse

[slaw-ter-hous] / ˈslɔ tərˌhaʊs /
NOUN
killing place
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They’re not selling it and sending it to a slaughterhouse.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Realizing that they’re headed to the slaughterhouse, the animals rebel against the humans, save themselves, and reinhabit the farm, establishing their own system of checks and balances to ensure their survival.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

When he arrived in Massachusetts for his first fellowship studying parathyroid hormone, Habener found a ready source of thyroid glands to study from a local Cambridge slaughterhouse that supplied calf meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

It said that livestock farmers, cheesemakers, slaughterhouse owners and feed suppliers had been informed about the new restrictions.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024

I filled it With wet dirt, This upside-down turtle, This slaughterhouse For chiles and tomatoes, The thousand sheets of onion.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

Somehow, even if they do, there is a successive chain of Agriculture Department inspectors, including at slaughterhouses and things like that, that are going to notice a gaping wound on an animal.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

They are sold to feedlots that fatten them up before being shipped to slaughterhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

We may presume that Neanderthals were not pleased to see their traditional hunting grounds turned into Sapiens-controlled slaughterhouses.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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