butcheries

plural of butchery

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for butcheries
massacres
Noun
  • Among the passengers was Qahtan Khalil, director of Syria’s air force intelligence, who was accused of being directly responsible for one of the bloodiest massacres of the country’s 13-year civil war.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Most people associate mass shootings with high-profile tragedies like the massacres at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015 or Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.
    James Densley, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Butcheries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butcheries. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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