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logger

noun

ˈlȯ-gər

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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 Adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams stars Joel Edgerton in an elegiac, mournful portrait of a logger at the turn of the century. —

David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026 By the early 20th century, after several centuries of rape, disease, enslavement, and land confiscation by colonizers, rubber barons, and loggers, their numbers had been reduced to 300. —

Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026 Related Stories The film follows Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living in the Pacific NorthWest. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025 Just helping the land out, helping the loggers. —

Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for logger

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Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, follows his key character one Robert Grainier, played brilliantly by Edgerton, a lumberman who felled timber for railroads at the turn of the 20th century.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.

— Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026