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as in to butcher
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrag
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According to the study, these tools were likely used to clean and butcher animals more efficiently.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025 -
There, prior excavations revealed six individuals whose bones had been dismembered and butchered, including potential human chew marks on hand, foot and rib bones.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
16 Dec. 2024
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And because Boulder has proven able to throttle in traffic for 50,000-plus football fans to Buffalos games at Folson Field, crowd control won’t be an issue.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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Even if private operators don’t immediately bid on every tract offered for lease, resuming federal oil and gas auctions signals that Washington is again friendly to the energy industry—an abrupt shift from Biden’s efforts to throttle lease sales.—
Dan Eberhart,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Trump could attempt to cut down the sometimes interminable permitting process for the transmission lines that carry that electricity to data centers.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Reducing these avoidable medical crises would dramatically cut down on the need for costly treatments, emergency room visits and hospital admissions.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Nearly half of digital investment is wasted due to misalignments between business and tech teams.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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That’s so her milk won’t be wasted nursing her children.—
Michael Freeman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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In our solar system, Venus is near the inner edge of the habitable zone, and its surface reaches temperatures of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius) underneath a thick, choking atmosphere.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Shauna begins choking, blood seeping out from her neck.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Even though Love finished the race in a better position at sixth, the two weren't happy.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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Paradise also finished 2-15 from beyond the arc, which Barnes said was uncharacteristic of the squad.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Mar. 2025
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That means the Senate's only practical effect is adding another point at which oligarch lobbyists can garrote popular policy.—
Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
29 Oct. 2021
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Tony, unhindered by any sense of moral anguish, garrotes the man in broad daylight with a length of cable.—
Adam Wilson,
Harper's magazine,
16 Sep. 2019
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In 2018, journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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In that case, an unknown person contacted the Sandy Hook tip line to say a friend had access to an AR-15 rifle, had just ordered a bulletproof vest and admired Nikolas Cruz – the gunman who murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, officials said.—
Taylor Romine,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Scrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrag. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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