as in blunderer
someone who bungles an effort
the newest intern on the campaign is a butcher when it comes to writing press releases
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as in to slaughter
to kill on a large scale
the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy
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as in to fumble
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
the new piano student butchered the sonatina
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Recent Examples of butcher
Annalise Peterson, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2026
The market, which will furnish all of Barnum-Dann’s restaurants, will include a butcher, a bakery and a creamery called Kindred Creamery, according to Abridged.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
Tell the people that you were basically butchered by your trauma.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The murder weapon, a butcher knife, was found at the scene.
—Annalise Peterson, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2026
The market, which will furnish all of Barnum-Dann’s restaurants, will include a butcher, a bakery and a creamery called Kindred Creamery, according to Abridged.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
For nearly half a century, Iran has been a thorn in the side of the United States, killing and maiming American soldiers, butchering Israeli citizens, threatening its neighbors and fostering terror around the globe.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
Tell the people that you were basically butchered by your trauma.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butcher
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But news of Anthropic testing its most powerful AI model yet slaughtered enterprise software stocks Friday.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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The elders will die, abandoned by their children, and their reindeer will be slaughtered or absorbed into bigger industrial-sized herds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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As the years went by, judges complained that the city’s in-house lawyers had fumbled key casework.—
Joe Mahr,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Nothing erodes confidence faster than fumbling for lockboxes, waiting on unresponsive listing agents, or showing a space that clearly doesn’t fit.—
Allen Buchanan,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Dodgers reached the pinnacle honestly, in a capitalistic structure that properly hands no favors to the incompetent.—
Bruce Jenkins,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Pitchers and batters are both worse than a coin-flip at issuing challenges – blown calls in a matter of seconds.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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Renee Good, mother of three, brutally murdered, Alex Pretti, VA nurse, executed by ICE, shot in the back and left to die in the street without even the decency of our lawless government investigating their deaths.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Houthis joined Hamas in its war against Israel in mid-October 2023, after the terrorist movement in Gaza invaded Israel and murdered over 1,200 people, including more than 40 Americans.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Australian surveyors first recorded a persistent underwater quacking dubbed the Bio-Duck noise in the 1960s.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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Deadline revealed details of the changes last year, with executives dubbing the plan Project Ada.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2026
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Scientists mangled the message on masking.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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Video from the scene showed a significant emergency response and vehicles mangled in the wreck.—
Mark Prussin,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2026
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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Accused of ruining baseball with their big-spending ways the past two years, the noise has only gotten louder as a labor showdown looms.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Butcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butcher. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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