as in slaughter
the killing of a large number of people
butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world
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Recent Examples of butchery
Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Coins, bracelets, cutting devices for manicures and butchery, projectiles.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
—Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Coins, bracelets, cutting devices for manicures and butchery, projectiles.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
—Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
Noun
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His parents wanted to make sure that he and his older brother would never get sucked into such slaughter.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Colt Gray is accused of using the firearm his father should have secured to carry out the slaughter about 45 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.—
Dan Gallo,
NBC news,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, prosecutors said.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, prosecutors said.—
Jeff Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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