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Their music provided a suitably self-important soundtrack as Great Recession-era artisanal hipsterdom faded into the careerist hopefulness of the latter Obama years, when Everlane minimalism supplanted lumberjack plaid.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Dexter Morgan died once before, born again as a lumberjack and eventually an upstate New York man about town.
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
The Spartans and Wolverines play annually for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, a 4-foot replica of the legendary lumberjack.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Quirky roadside figures include giant cowboys, lumberjacks, and dinosaurs.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Dexter Morgan died once before, born again as a lumberjack and eventually an upstate New York man about town.
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
The Spartans and Wolverines play annually for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, a 4-foot replica of the legendary lumberjack.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 July 2025
Quirky roadside figures include giant cowboys, lumberjacks, and dinosaurs.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumberjack
Noun
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Two strong lumbermen with spiked poles pushed and tugged at the logs, slowly opening a passage.—
Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
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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
Noun
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The film — which hails from director Clint Bentley, who also adapted it with Greg Kwedar from Denis Johnson's 2011 novella of the same name — follows the life of a logger named Robert Grainier (Edgerton), who works to install railroads across the continental United States in the early to mid-1900s.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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During the 1970s, rural villagers in India, particularly women, responded to the invasion of loggers by embracing trees under threat, in what became known as the Chipko movement.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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