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Recent Examples of lumbermen
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.
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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, 19 Nov. 2025
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, 19 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumbermen
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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
Noun
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The company was created to provide durable and functional garments for hunters, lumberjacks and railway workers.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Sangliers are early risers, tasked with following lumberjacks from forest to forest in pursuit of felled trees destined for sawmills.—
Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock,
Saveur,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Lumbermen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumbermen. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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