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Recent Examples of lumberjack
Their music provided a suitably self-important soundtrack as Great Recession-era artisanal hipsterdom faded into the careerist hopefulness of the latter Obama years, when Everlane minimalism supplanted lumberjack plaid.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Amateur lumberjacks will love popping the CAM open and pulling out the 6-in-long (15-cm) axe head only to find an 8-in (20-cm) carbon steel saw blade waiting on the other side.
—New Atlas, 25 July 2025
The Spartans and Wolverines play annually for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, a 4-foot replica of the legendary lumberjack.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 July 2025
The title novel, Stag Dance, is an engrossing historical tale about turn-of-the-century lumberjacks who hold an annual dance where some of the men choose to attend as women.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 July 2025
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Amateur lumberjacks will love popping the CAM open and pulling out the 6-in-long (15-cm) axe head only to find an 8-in (20-cm) carbon steel saw blade waiting on the other side.
—New Atlas, 25 July 2025
The Spartans and Wolverines play annually for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, a 4-foot replica of the legendary lumberjack.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 July 2025
The title novel, Stag Dance, is an engrossing historical tale about turn-of-the-century lumberjacks who hold an annual dance where some of the men choose to attend as women.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumberjack
Noun
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Two strong lumbermen with spiked poles pushed and tugged at the logs, slowly opening a passage.—
Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
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In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Hartford Courant,
6 May 2024
Noun
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Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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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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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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