tree hugger
Example Sentences
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Make no mistake, however: Abramson was not your typical tree-hugger.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2023
And yet, for years and years, if you betrayed the fact that you cared about this, you were described as a tree-hugger and mocked.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2019
But it is the way these trees are grown that is just as interesting to a gardener and tree-hugger like me.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017
A champion of poor immigrants, a critic of capitalism and a tree-hugger who has, meanwhile, done little to revise the church’s social teachings, Pope Francis has something for both camps.
From Economist • Sep. 17, 2015
"I'm no tree-hugger," he says "but Pebble is the wrong mine, in the wrong place".
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2013
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.