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
  • Staffers maintain that recruits have actually manipulated highlights for years, before AI, and there are tells, such as watching to see if the referees or people in the stands are sped up.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • When that happens, the recruiters usually close the doors immediately, sometimes with new recruits inside.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Silberman is one of South Florida’s oldest living World War II veterans, having served as a communications and decoding officer aboard the battleship USS Arkansas in the Pacific.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • Vegas is another experienced playoff team loaded with veterans.
    Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Joining doesn’t come without complications for a country that effectively cannot order its conscripts to fight overseas.
    Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Anthropocene framing conscripts the work into contemporary climate discourse, rendering its specific engagement with Kazakh nomadic destruction merely illustrative of broader ecological crisis.
    Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Opening the home-and-away semifinal series at BMO Stadium on Wednesday night, LAFC secured a late 2-1 victory over the two-time defending Liga MX champions, giving the MLS power a real shot of reaching its third Champions Cup final since 2020.
    Josh Gross, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Celebrity makeup artist Joel Vasquez champions a less-is-more approach.
    Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Diggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggers. Accessed 4 May. 2026.

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