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
Besides, their exchange had a realness to it that had to make many a cynic pause, however briefly, before proceeding to the online butchery.
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
Noun
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Back then, the sector focused on drugs that helped cattle and swine survive long enough to make slaughter weight.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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But Serkis prefers his Trojan horse without the slaughter.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This article includes graphic and disturbing accounts from the October 7 massacre in Israel.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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But 2026 has marked a new nadir for one of the world’s oldest civilizations, with the government’s massacre of anti-regime protestors in January and widespread destruction from the United States’ and Israel’s intermittent war.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
13 May 2026
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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