digger

chiefly Australian & New Zealand

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of digger The hydrogen digger’s deployment follows earlier trials at Gallagher’s Hermitage Quarry in Kent. Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025 Grab your bulb digger and set out these fabulous flowering bulbs for show-stopping spring blooms. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for digger
Noun
  • That includes Jan Laureys (Willem De Schryver), who never wanted to be a gendarme in the first place.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Some 80,000 police and gendarmes were set to be deployed throughout the day, including riot units, drones and armored vehicles.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s the Rotonde suite, in the medieval tower, which looks up at 14th-century rafters, as well as the Matilde suite, named after a Portuguese noblewoman whose life was saved by the knight Jean de Pommard.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Another possibility is that King Charles could remove his brother's role as a knight of the prestigious Order of the Garter, per The Times.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This new health setback for the 15-time major champion has sparked intense debate in the golf world.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
  • After the Wild just missed a chance to end the game in overtime with Brock Faber and Eriksson Ek on a 2-on-1 rush, Cates — who was a 2019 NCAA champion at Minnesota Duluth — fired a shot that beat Wallstedt on the goalie’s right side.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two reps later, Nix saw blitz and — with a veteran’s cool — checked into a quick-hit to Evan Engram, who sped for 20 yards.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The 40-year-old NBA veteran is reportedly expected to make his return sometime in November.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ending the war will offer the Israeli leader relief from daily headlines of IDF casualties, strained reservist forces, increasing international isolation and severe economic damage – heavy burdens for electoral campaigns.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • One of the defendants, Benjamin Song — a 32-year-old former Marine Corps reservist who associates described to authorities as a cult-like ringleader who opposes the government on immigration enforcement and on other matters — shot Alvarado Police Department Lt.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • No one, including the doctors, knew what recovery would look like for Katy, the high school senior who had been captain of her Lourdes soccer team and a likely Division 1 recruit.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The boos were long gone when Napier stood in the tunnel three-quarters of an hour later to finish up a chat with a recruit.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The average enrollee is expected to pay more than double if the tax credits are left to expire.
    Amanda Seitz, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
  • However, Leila’s plan backfires, turning her into the latest enrollee.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Digger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digger. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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