as in lumberman
a person whose job is to cut down trees the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down

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Recent Examples of logger And, indeed, much like other immigrant laborers, French-Canadian loggers were subject to harsh working conditions and low pay as well as to political disenfranchisement. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 June 2025 President Donald Trump wants loggers to cut down bigger California trees for lumber. Tom Philp, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025 In some scenes of the film, the relationship remains much closer as in Myanmar, where loggers use elephants to move giant trees felled for timber. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025 From July 2021 to December 2023, vehicle data loggers measured participants' driving behaviors such as hard braking, hard cornering, randomness of driving routes, speeding, and distances traveled. Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for logger
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  • At this moment, our two guides and the lumbermen who had rescued us from the log jam came bursting out of the guides’ cabin and rushed to the bateau.
    Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
  • 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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  • Dexter Morgan died once before, born again as a lumberjack and eventually an upstate New York man about town.
    Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
  • If Bowers, who grew up in the Boston area, could pass as a grad student on a hike, then Hallett’s leather drover’s hat hints at his experience as a lumberjack.
    Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
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  • In the series, following the Norman invasion of England, Rob (Patten) – a Saxon forester’s son – and Marian (McQueen) the daughter of a Norman lord – fall in love and work together to fight for justice and freedom.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 July 2025
  • My father was the head forester of a very large estate in Angus.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025

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