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
This site, containing hominin remains and butchery marks on animal remains, is dated to around 1.85 million years ago.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Staff swiftly and expertly break down the fish at butchery stations across from a grid of icy oyster trays — the Blue Points are sourced from Long Island.
—Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Patole heads to a market town to buy leafy greens, then trudges down a muddy road lined with butcher shops, each a hole-in-the-wall, run by Muslim men – the Indian minority dominates the butchery trade.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Staff swiftly and expertly break down the fish at butchery stations across from a grid of icy oyster trays — the Blue Points are sourced from Long Island.
—Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Patole heads to a market town to buy leafy greens, then trudges down a muddy road lined with butcher shops, each a hole-in-the-wall, run by Muslim men – the Indian minority dominates the butchery trade.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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The church's pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was one of the people killed in the massacre.—
Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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