diggers

Definition of diggersnext
plural of digger, chiefly Australian & New Zealand

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Noun
  • Enter Orsolya, who shows up at the door with some gendarmes and an official eviction notice and gives Ion twenty minutes to quit the premises.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time, there's enough nonsense, edging into ridiculousness, that the series might best be approached as a black action-comedy — at the end of the opening scene, the gendarmes are splattered with pieces of supermodel — or a very fancy B (maybe C) picture.
    Robert Lloyd, Houston Chronicle, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In a sport where top recruits can choose between schools in Alaska, Arizona, New England and places in between, very little unites the college hockey world.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
  • Georgia is set to host only nine official visitors over the next month who are ranked among the nation’s Top 100 recruits.
    Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The Avs are short on draft picks and prospects to use in trades, but there are also lots of teams with plenty of cap space who might want to add one of the Colorado veterans.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
  • Three of those bands’ key members — Toto guitarist-vocalist Steve Lukather, former Average White Bands bassist/singer Hamish Stewart and Men At Work singer-guitarist Colin Hay — are All-Starr Band veterans.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • In 2001, when Germany still had conscription, the headcount was 300,000 — more than a third of them conscripts.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 May 2026
  • Joining doesn’t come without complications for a country that effectively cannot order its conscripts to fight overseas.
    Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • It was widely viewed as an exciting statement of ambition from the champions.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • If Sorsby is unable to play then the defending Big 12 champions will rely on Will Hammond, who is recovering from an ACL injury and won’t be cleared until fall camp.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 May 2026
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“Diggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggers. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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