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 Access roads cut for construction allow poachers who target lynx prey and loggers who destroy the cat’s habitat to penetrate deeper into previously remote terrain. Emily Soreghan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024 The body was supposedly petrified by sap, and the loggers found several gold coins dating to the late 1600s, as well as pieces of paper identifying the person as Pierre D’Artagnan. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024 Martínez tells Noticias Telemundo the reserve has been able to fight back as loggers and miners try to take down forest areas. Russell Contreras, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024 Krisha Fairchild, the ivory-haired bohemian who broke out in Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha, is perfectly cast as a soulful activist who has been camping out for decades to stop loggers from cutting down her beloved trees. Judy Berman, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for logger 
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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.
    Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
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  • In Fred Alley and James Kaplan's eternally popular hit musical, lumberjacks up north enjoy their bachelor camp world until a woman shows up who puts them in a tizzy.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
  • But Ortega sawed through Fallon like some sort of Monty Python–level lumberjack.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • George said his father quashed his early dream to be a game warden or forester.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Since the project began, scientists and local foresters from the indigenous Matlatzinca people have planted nearly 1,000 seedlings.
    Andrea J. Arratibel, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Logger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logger. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.

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