stockyard

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The price of the grilled rib-eye might have you choking, but the $90 stockyard — er, platter — of blushing beef, sliced for easy feasting, could easily feed a bunkhouse.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

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

When they make out their feed budgets, they count on their herds being able to forage, rather than eat in the stockyard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2015

Instead of booths the size of stockyard stalls, there were wide-open prairies of exhibition space on all three floors.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2015

It was here, in what Chicagoans called a “streetcar” suburb, that stockyard supervisors chose to settle, as did officials of companies headquartered in the skyscrapers of the Loop.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson