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stockyard

[stok-yahrd] / ˈstɒkˌjɑrd /
NOUN
slaughterhouse
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The old farming dynasties are selling up their land to multinational conglomerates, and the stockyard jobs are gone.

From New York Times Jul. 21, 2022

In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 27, 2020

He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post Jul. 17, 2020

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

She had a large pleasant nose that sniffed the air at irregular intervals like a heifer catching the scent of blood in the stockyard.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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