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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumberers
Noun
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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
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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
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Just helping the land out, helping the loggers.—
Austen Erblat,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2025
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“Lumberers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberers. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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