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Recent Examples of lumberman
Two other men also applied for a barbed wire patent with changes of their own: lumberman Jacob Haish and merchant Isaac Leonard Ellwood, according to Encyclopedia online.
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Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
The lumberman crowded in next, becoming the second white man to catch a fatal load of buckshot.
—Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
One occupant was James P. Whelan, a lumberman.
—Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
For one of Eric’s distant relatives, a lumberman named Moses Grandy, the swamp was at once the site of his bondage and the nexus of his freedom.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2022
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Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
The lumberman crowded in next, becoming the second white man to catch a fatal load of buckshot.
—Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
One occupant was James P. Whelan, a lumberman.
—Donna Reiner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
For one of Eric’s distant relatives, a lumberman named Moses Grandy, the swamp was at once the site of his bondage and the nexus of his freedom.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumberman
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
Noun
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The Kansas City Chiefs tight end appeared to lean in even deeper to the buzz with his lumberjack-style pregame tunnel fits.—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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Musk also took a swipe at Duffy’s status as a world champion lumberjack speed climber.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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The opera tells the story of a forester who makes a deal with the devil for magic bullets.—
Lennie Omalza,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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Some are upward of 60 years old and produce famously delicious wild nuts that few living people beyond foresters, researchers, and volunteers have ever tasted.—
Eric J. Wallace,
Outside,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Lumberman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberman. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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