loggers

Definition of loggersnext
plural of logger
as in lumbermen
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 loggers Environmentalists say the state should not be cutting carbon-storing redwoods, while loggers maintain their practices are sustainable. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026 Over the past few years, a wave of companies has emerged to extract sophisticated and granular information about how employees spend their time, sometimes down to the minute, using tech such as location trackers, keystroke loggers, cameras, and microphones. Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026 Sliced from a tree felled by loggers in 1891, the cross-section was annotated with historical events that marked its 13 centuries of life, from the beginning of Chinese book printing to the Crusades to the invention of the telescope. Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026 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. 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 Most resonant are the scenes with the other loggers, many of whom are itinerants without families. Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2025 In a town of loggers, hippies, and students, Denise’s father was a doctor. Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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  • Besides those figures holding mufflers and tires, others were outfitted as cowboys, Indians, lumberjacks (often known as Paul Bunyans), astronauts, chefs, dentists, golfers, hot dog vendors, race-car drivers, pirates and service-station attendants.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • The line's North to Alaska program brings Indigenous Alaskans and resident experts on board, from lumberjacks who can swing an axe with style to mountain climbers who have tackled Denali.
    Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026

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“Loggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loggers. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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