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
  • The agency waived age limits for new recruits, relaxed its vetting process, and decreased the training period for incoming officers.
    Oriana van Praag, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Fudd beat out several top men’s basketball recruits to win the camp’s 3-point contest.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Crypto newcomers and veterans have paid to attend workshops centered on investing.
    Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
  • After years of disappointment in March, coach Tommy Lloyd has gotten Arizona (36-2) back to being a championship contender thanks to a talented freshman class led by Peat to go along with veterans like Big 12 Player of the Year Jaden Bradley.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Mar. 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
  • Jessica Riedl, a budget and tax fellow at the Brookings Institution, champions flattening benefits as the income scale rises.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There aren’t many ways to earn a club’s first win better than bewildering the league’s defending champions at their place.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2026
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“Diggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggers. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.

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