as in blunderer
someone who bungles an effort
the newest intern on the campaign is a butcher when it comes to writing press releases
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as in to slaughter
to kill on a large scale
the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy
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as in to fumble
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
the new piano student butchered the sonatina
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Recent Examples of butcher
Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
The museum is being co-founded by Jonathan Bender, a food writer and barbecue judge, and Alex Pope, a chef who owns a whole animal butcher shop.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
The placement of the marks suggested the animals were butchered for their meat with a deliberate sequence of cuts that focused on dense areas of the armadillo’s flesh, according to the Delgado.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 July 2024
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Industrial Eats bills itself as a restaurant and butcher shop.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
The museum is being co-founded by Jonathan Bender, a food writer and barbecue judge, and Alex Pope, a chef who owns a whole animal butcher shop.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
This means the fish must be carefully scaled and butchered in a way that protects the flesh from drying out.
—Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
The placement of the marks suggested the animals were butchered for their meat with a deliberate sequence of cuts that focused on dense areas of the armadillo’s flesh, according to the Delgado.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 July 2024
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This is left somewhat ambiguous, but it is implied that Agatha is buying time for Nick by slaughtering covens of witches as an offering to Death.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In April of 1983, Hezbollah assaulted the U.S. Embassy in Beirut with a suicide truck bomb that slaughtered 63 people, including 17 Americans.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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After wide receiver Courtland Sutton fumbled at the goal line, the Panthers marched down the field on a 10-play, 98-yard scoring drive, which ended with Young finding Coker for a 15-yard touchdown pass.Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2024
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Even in that moment, he got stuck on a couple of words and fumbled the line.ABC NEWS, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
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Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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Oldenburg’s ode to Mies van der Rohe’s signature pocket square, the 12-foot fiberglass Handkerchief, will blow toward Park Avenue, and inside, a giant cloth saw will hug the walls and floor.Morgan Meier, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2024
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Lambesis infamously spent nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to soliciting an undercover cop to murder his then-wife and relaunched the band in 2018 after his release from prison.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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Steven Lawson, charged with tampering with physical evidence and conspiracy to murder, will be tried separately from his son, Joseph Lawson, and Brooks Houck, who are also charged with tampering with physical evidence and conspiracy to murder, according to court records.Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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All the money has been reserved for a program called the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project, dubbed HVIP.Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
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Millennials, sometimes dubbed the Peter Pan generation, are in no rush to grow up and love self-expression.Boris Abaev, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Tampa Bay Rays’ Tropicana Field was mangled so badly by Category 3 winds that MLB officials are contemplating if the baseball team will need to play in a nearby venue to begin a season that won’t start until March.DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Warren wrote: Wounded women and children crying and moaning, horribly mangled by the bullets … Two Indian men were killed in the hole … Seven women were killed … and three children, two of them in their mothers’ arms.Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Lobby group Family Business UK said tens of thousands of family-run businesses and farms will be ruined by this change due to lower levels of inheritance tax relief.Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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The ground floors of thousands of homes have been ruined.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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State regulators, meanwhile, have rarely used a mechanism in their disposal to boot abusive employers from bringing migrant workers.Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
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State lawmakers booted the TSU board and upended the university's search for a new president following a series of withering audits that described widespread mismanagement by top administrators.Adam Tamburin, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Butcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butcher. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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