diggers

plural of digger, chiefly Australian & New Zealand

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Noun
  • As this beat writer has previously pointed out, Evero’s history has been partial to playing veterans early on in a season.
    Mike Kaye September 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Four people will testify at the hearing, including three military veterans and one journalist.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The course accepts recruits whose body fat is up to 8% higher or whose scores on the Army's aptitude test are as much as seven points lower than the requirement to become a soldier.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Both students were dubbed three-star recruits, and university president Kimo Ah Yun wrote in a letter to the community that they had each been named BIG EAST All-Academic Team athletes for their work as students.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For more than three years, Ukrainian soldiers, conscripts and ordinary civilians have given their lives to defend their country’s borders, and Vasyanovych is speaking to Variety just days before the latest onslaught of Russian missiles on Kyiv.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The spectacle of the Long Walk is even sadder as a stand-in for capitalist expectations, its conscripts literally marching themselves to death as sacrifices to fading American exceptionalism.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trying to be the first repeat champions in 25 years is incentive enough, but this is a team that is still championship or bust – especially after such a frustrating regular season.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In summer, game day looks for tennis champions Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner bumped sales.
    Charlotte Hu, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Diggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggers. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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