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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

“We don’t want a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles County.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 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

This approach would allow the federal government to impose effective regulations where the most serious food safety concerns originate: on the farm and in the slaughterhouse.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2024

When the three fools found the communal kitchen, whose main job was to make lunch for workers in the slaughterhouse, everybody had gone home but one woman who had been waiting for them impatiently.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

The payments aim to provide a financial safety net for smaller slaughterhouses, which are losing an estimated $300 per head of cattle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 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

The link between disdain and action may not form, in the same way that people who don’t like slaughterhouses still eat steak.

From Slate Mar. 4, 2025

When I crossed the river’s northern bend, I avoided glancing at the brownish water churning below, noxious with runoff from the slaughterhouses.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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