butchery

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Recent Examples of butchery 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 Chef Stephen Peak sources 90 percent of ingredients from the on-site greenhouse and gardens, and staffers practice whole-animal butchery, make their own cheese and charcuterie, bake their own bread, and preserve and ferment seasonal produce. Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 27 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for butchery
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 23 Jun. 2025.

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