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as in to butcher
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Late in the second period, the Blue Jackets, still leading 4-1, continually butchered the puck in their own zone, almost presenting it to the Penguins as an offering.—
Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
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The same day, a friend sent him an article about pig-butchering schemes.—
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The Hoosiers — who, like Tech, lose their first-ever playoff game last season and might’ve been expected to fizzle — beat Ohio State in the Big 10 championship game to clinch the bracket’s top seed and throttled Alabama in the Rose Bowl to make the playoff committee look smart for the decision.—
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Putin's regime has banned Facebook and Instagram and severely throttled other platforms such as X, formerly Twitter.—
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This isn't the first time - or even the second - Johnson has used his training to save a child from choking.—
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Local news outlets, however, reported that the actor has been in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Seoul after collapsing while choking on food at his home.—
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But waste diversion rates — the amount of garbage being recycled instead of dumped in landfills — remain stubbornly low.—
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So some of that fancy technology is going to waste.—
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That means the Senate's only practical effect is adding another point at which oligarch lobbyists can garrote popular policy.—
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Tony, unhindered by any sense of moral anguish, garrotes the man in broad daylight with a length of cable.—
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Reed recently finished his seventh season with the Panthers, resulting in his fewest wins yet with a 4-7 record.—
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The Clippers were up 85-81 late in the third before the Knicks finished strong to take a 90-87 edge to the fourth.—
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Fujita was 20 in 2013 when he was found guilty of strangling and stabbing his former high school girlfriend to death in Wayland.—
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Mostly, though, Boland strangles batters with his suffocating and deadly-accurate line and length.—
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Perez, a 63-year-old transient man, was convicted of the child murders from 1992 through 2001 throughout Central and Northern California, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release.—
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Black was initially charged with attempting to murder him but a judge reduced that charge to assault after the preliminary hearing.—
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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