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Recent Examples of loggers
Katie Waldron Cascadia – In the world of sparring environmentalists and loggers in Coastal Oregon, a wildlife biologist, a timber worker, and a pyromaniac punk come together to form an environmental activist group and navigate a blossoming love triangle.
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Mar. 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
Just helping the land out, helping the loggers.
—Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
In a town of loggers, hippies, and students, Denise’s father was a doctor.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
During the 1970s, rural villagers in India, particularly women, responded to the invasion of loggers by embracing trees under threat, in what became known as the Chipko movement.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
An outbreak of pine beetles and 2024's Hurricane Helene helped contribute to a glut of pulpwood in the market, however, which drove down the value of that wood and made loggers even less interested in investing resources on a small lot like Blair's.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
As the humid jumble of roaring motorcycles and bubble-tea shops vanishes behind me, knotted electrical wires make way for betel nut plantations and clotheslines in small-town backyards that straddle railroad tracks first built for loggers.
—Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Mar. 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
Just helping the land out, helping the loggers.
—Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
In a town of loggers, hippies, and students, Denise’s father was a doctor.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
During the 1970s, rural villagers in India, particularly women, responded to the invasion of loggers by embracing trees under threat, in what became known as the Chipko movement.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
An outbreak of pine beetles and 2024's Hurricane Helene helped contribute to a glut of pulpwood in the market, however, which drove down the value of that wood and made loggers even less interested in investing resources on a small lot like Blair's.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
As the humid jumble of roaring motorcycles and bubble-tea shops vanishes behind me, knotted electrical wires make way for betel nut plantations and clotheslines in small-town backyards that straddle railroad tracks first built for loggers.
—Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loggers
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The company was created to provide durable and functional garments for hunters, lumberjacks and railway workers.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Sangliers are early risers, tasked with following lumberjacks from forest to forest in pursuit of felled trees destined for sawmills.—
Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock,
Saveur,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Loggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loggers. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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