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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But Serkis prefers his Trojan horse without the slaughter.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Peace journalism is a form of news reporting by which reporters frame their stories in ways that facilitate nonviolent responses to conflict, for example, by avoiding inflammatory words such as massacre, slaughter, or brutal.—
Karen McIntyre,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Infowars is facing liquidation because of the more than $1 billion in defamation lawsuit judgments Jones owes relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.—
Jim Vertuno,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Valente began plotting the Brown University massacre as early as 2022, renting a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, to stash his weapons.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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