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Recent Examples of lumberjack
Sangliers are early risers, tasked with following lumberjacks from forest to forest in pursuit of felled trees destined for sawmills.
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Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
And there are flashbacks to her father’s days as a lumberjack and her mother’s special powers.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
Think a chic take on a flannel that’s more fashion-forward and less lumberjack.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Turcotte, a former lumberjack who began his racing career in 1961, won 3,023 races over the course of nearly two decades before his career ended in 1978 at the age of 36.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
And there are flashbacks to her father’s days as a lumberjack and her mother’s special powers.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
Think a chic take on a flannel that’s more fashion-forward and less lumberjack.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Turcotte, a former lumberjack who began his racing career in 1961, won 3,023 races over the course of nearly two decades before his career ended in 1978 at the age of 36.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 23 Aug. 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 novella, Train Dreams is described as a moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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