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 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 For comparison, in 2022, there were over 100 deaths from work injuries for every 100,000 working loggers in the US, a death rate every year that’s about 10 times larger than the one-time risk of kidney donation. Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024 There are a lot of dangerous jobs — loggers, high-steel ironworkers, lion tamers and, if reality TV is to be believed, ice-road truckers. Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 10 Aug. 2024 The trio eventually made it to safety, trekking seven hours down an unpaved loggers’ road to Chico. Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 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
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  • Some regions will have the discretion to hire additional employees for critical positions, like avalanche crews, said Jacqueline Buchanan, a forester for the Pacific Northwest Region, which includes nearly 25 million acres of public lands in Oregon and Washington.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • In Miami-Dade County, 33.5% of homeowners pay $4,000-plus a year, ranking it in the top 10 among the country's most populous counties. Curtis, who has lived in Taylor County for 40 years and is a former forester, said many of her neighbors can't afford to pay for insurance.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2024

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“Logger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logger. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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