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“It is very tense right now,” said Oleksandr Kobets, a farmer who was butchering a pig in his yard.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

By the time she was 9, she was butchering chickens to help her grandmother cater weddings in the towns around Oaxaca City in Oaxaca, Mexico.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2021

He seemed relaxed and good-humored, even as I was butchering flavors.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2016

It was butchering day at Silas Chamberlain’s and Liza Ann had the household astir early.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.

Carse leaned musing in a corner of the control cabin, oblivious to the well-meaning but toneless voice with which Ban Wilson, at the electelscope was butchering a song.

From The Passing of Ku Sui by Gilmore, Anthony