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
That’s based on comparisons to what bones look like when modern hunter-gatherers butcher their game, along with archaeologists’ experiments with stone tool butchery.
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ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
Or, perhaps different numbers of individuals were involved with the butchery at each site.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025
Readers will find step-by-step instructions for plucking and skinning, detailed butchery sequences, and over 100 recipes that utilize every part of the bird.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Their bodies were discovered inside their den, where they were trapped, buried, and frozen after a probable landslide, around what appeared to be a human butchery site.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2025
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ArsTechnica, 18 July 2025
Or, perhaps different numbers of individuals were involved with the butchery at each site.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025
Readers will find step-by-step instructions for plucking and skinning, detailed butchery sequences, and over 100 recipes that utilize every part of the bird.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Their bodies were discovered inside their den, where they were trapped, buried, and frozen after a probable landslide, around what appeared to be a human butchery site.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for butchery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
Noun
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Warned by ornithologists that killing an insectivorous bird that also ate grain seeds would lead to a surge in locusts and caterpillars, Mao dismissed such arguments and urged mass slaughter.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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The shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School that killed 13 students and one teacher.—
Katie Langford,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sheriff Tony later condemned his deputies’ failures, including their inaction on removing Nathan’s firearms or seeking a court order under Florida’s red flag law, passed after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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