diggers

plural of digger, chiefly Australian & New Zealand

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Noun
  • The front office acquired a pair of veterans in free agency in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston, along with nabbing Jaxson Dart on draft night.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Members of the Yurok Tribe waited on the sandbar to greet them, including 90-year-old Lavina Mattz Bowers and other veterans of the struggle to affirm the tribe's fishing rights.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA Today, 2 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
  • The Israeli military has a relatively small active-duty force, comprised mostly of conscripts.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Women’s Super League (WSL) returns this week with reigning champions Chelsea hosting Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Friday to kick off the 2025-26 season.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • These two Tequila and Mezcal champions, rated the world’s best, were both awarded 2025 Spirit Trophies by the International Wines & Spirit Competition.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Diggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggers. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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