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
Egan says 95 percent of customers order steak, from prime or choice beef bought from a longtime family packer in Nebraska, then aged and cut in the restaurant’s butchery.
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
Noun
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That's because the industry is suddenly less burdened by excess slaughter capacity that had been keeping profit margins low.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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In Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, the countdown isn’t just for the inevitable mass slaughter but also for the nuptials of Rachel Harkin (Camila Morrone) and Nicky Cunningham (Adam DiMarco).—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Conceived in 2015, Goliath’s Elegy comprises performance and video, and addresses femicide killings of trans and gay people in South Africa as well as the Herero and Nama massacre conducted by German colonial forces in the 1900s in what is now Namibia.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
25 Mar. 2026
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In the days and weeks following the Hamas massacre of innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, students and colleagues alike in his academic community posted fiery condemnations of and expressions of moral disgust toward … Israel.—
Jesse Brown,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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