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slaughterer

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as in butcher

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Add Preferred Source The 79-cent price is a nod to 1979, when Perry’s got its start as a small Houston butcher shop before growing into a steakhouse chain with locations across Texas and several other states.

— Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2026
The kitchen is run by Chef Chris Snider, a graduate of Stoic and Genuine and Rioja who started at the butcher shop several months before the restaurant opened.

— Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2026

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During the execution procedure on Christa Pike, executioners struggled to place IV lines, causing the pentobarbital to flow into her body rather than her bloodstream, according to Pike’s attorneys.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Prisoners have suffered for long periods as executioners fail to find a suitable vein.

— New York Times, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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To be fair, a genre that’s given us everything from brooding, sparkling emo kids who play baseball; a stake-wielding teen slayer who can’t quit the bad boy; and eccentric sidekicks who feast on bugs is ripe with material for mockery.

— Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
The abject terror of reproduction was personified by Lamashtu, demoness of the night, drinker of blood, eater of flesh, slayer of children, untimely opener of wombs, ravager of women.

— Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

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