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Ratko Mladic, the so-called "butcher of Bosnia" who has reportedly died at the age of either 83 or 84, had insisted he was chosen by "fate" to defend the Serb people from a Western onslaught.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

A meat board carries half a butcher shop in sausage form.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

With nothing more than a smartphone, a lighting kit and a fridge full of fresh meat, halal butcher Manny Malik from Wolverhampton had around two hundred people tuning into his session.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

A portrait of Reich president Hindenburg hangs in his butcher shop.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Leicestershire County Council announced the £131m road would be named in honour of the meaty treat, a speciality of the town's butchers, at a ceremony on Thursday.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

The government decided not to back a previous proposal for more businesses including butchers and fishmongers to open on the public holiday.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Craig Hammond, who runs a butchers in Matfield, said he was planning to close on Thursday, saying it was impossible to stay open for "hygiene reasons."

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

Manchester Farms Quail – Quail can be surprisingly tough to track down, even at specialty butchers, but Manchester Farms makes this delicious little bird totally accessible for home cooks.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

At the end of life, a fallen brother was honored by his fellow butchers with a last tribute: an elaborate funeral wreath in the shape of a broken cleaver.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Animal remains were also placed in the grave, including a butchered calf.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

In 2024, Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a 9-year-old girl and her family after sheriff’s deputies seized her goat so it could be butchered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

The camera holds on a tight shot of a tomato being butchered by a dull kitchen knife, juice and seeds spilling out as the fruit splits down its sides.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025

Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs?

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Cornell University has clarified that its dorm kitchens are for cooking food — not butchering bears.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Lingjing appears to have been a butchering site where Homo juluensis processed animals such as deer.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

Found in the Edgcote area in Northamptonshire, it has a sharp edge likely designed for butchering animals.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

We’ve come a long way from 1992, when Bill Clinton bypassed prime-time and Sunday political shows by wearing sunglasses and butchering “Heartbreak Hotel” on a saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

Feeding and watering and shearing and lambing and even castrating and butchering, I do all these things.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness