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logger

[law-ger, log-er] / ˈlɔ gər, ˈlɒg ər /
NOUN
lumberjack
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He stepped aside in July and was replaced by Troy Jackson, a former logger and state Senate president, who has considerable ground to make up after his late start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Jackson, who lost the Democratic primary for governor earlier this year, is a logger from far northern Aroostook County whose views turned more progressive as time went on.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

Mr. Jackson’s campaign website portrays him as an man of the people, not a politician: “A fifth-generation logger from Allagash” and a “lifelong fighter for workers’ rights.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

One thing to know: This Sundance Film Festival hit about the life and sorrows of a logger in early 20th-century America is based on a novella by Denis Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

There he sat in his high, stiff collar, no more than twenty or twenty-one, a young logger on his day off from the woods.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Elsewhere, what used to be roaming bands of Hadzabe men now work as village forest guards, tasked with patrolling vast scrub forests and acacia bushlands to look out for poachers, land grabbers and illegal loggers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

Now, Bekewei is on the other side of the law, working as a ranger tracking down hunters and loggers in the sprawling reserve.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

For many publications, tastemakers and overly serious Letterboxd loggers, December is a time to reflect and choose the absolute and objective best pieces of art they encountered in the preceding calendar year.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

In recent weeks they got an unlikely ally in loggers who said scuttling the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

For the loggers, the mountain was their livelihood.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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