Definition of loggernext
as in lumberman
a person whose job is to cut down trees the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down

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Recent Examples of logger Just helping the land out, helping the loggers. Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025 Joel Edgerton stars as resilient logger Robert, who wrestles with tragedy in the Pacific Northwest. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025 Based on the unforgettable Denis Johnson novella, Clint Bentley’s new film set in the Pacific Northwest follows Robert Grainier, a logger and rail worker at the turn of the 20th century played by Joel Edgerton. Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025 The logger and railsplitter occasionally encounters American eccentrics, like a chatty drifter prone to sporting bible verses and an old coot of a demolitions expert with a philosophical bent. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for logger
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Noun
  • Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The drive honors the late lumberman and conservationist Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
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  • Soon after the felling, police arrested a former lumberjack who was fighting eviction from the area, as well as a sixteen-year-old boy, but both were released without charge.
    Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There's plenty of original fare, too, like a Minka Kelly holiday rom-com and a Joel Edgerton lumberjack movie.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Julie Clark, a community education specialist for UCANR, recalled getting a call from a local forester who spotted an unhealthy-looking coast live oak while driving in Simi Hills’ Box Canyon.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • An ecologist and forester were assigned by the DNR to work with the contractor to ensure that numerous oak trees that are over 100 years old are protected during demolition.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025

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“Logger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logger. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.

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