lumberjack
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He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Karolina Urbanova had never heard of lumberjack sports until a new neighbour moved into her small Czech village and enlisted her help for events when she was a teenager.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Wanted to get my hands on it, couldn’t, and I’m happy to say that it’s good that I didn’t get my big fat lumberjack hands on it then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
After ogling old cars, lean into nostalgia in the Meadow Gold District, dotted with retro shops and “muffler men,” giant fiberglass statues of a lumberjack, a cowboy and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Clive had come here to southern Washington State when he was just sixteen, to work as a lumberjack.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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Deadfall is a particularly thorny problem, and the club’s latter-day lumberjacks head out with chain saws in tow to remove trees upward of 4 feet in diameter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
It’s narrated by Weldon Applegate, a 99-year-old man remembering back to his teenage years, when the long line of lumberjacks in his family seemed like it might be petering out.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
Dinner: Impossible Robert Irvine is in the forests near Mackinaw City, Mich., to create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner for 50 lumberjacks and a dish for timber show guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
But along with the lightkeepers’ journals and the usual suspects like Stevenson and Coleridge, and looking at interviews with lumberjacks from the period, we came across the work of Sarah Orne Jewett.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2019
We had reached the edge of town, by the little gas station/grocery store where the lumberjacks had dropped us.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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