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
  • Spring games for most if not all teams are over and official visits for recruits won't start until after Memorial Day.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Among those international recruits is Mary Joy Alunday, who came from the Philippines to teach mathematics — a subject, along with science, that Colorado schools have often struggled to staff.
    Anna Alejo, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The league’s 32 players come from a variety of places and levels of experience, ranging from Division I, II and III to the NBA G League and overseas veterans.
    Jason Beede, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2026
  • Last year's polesitter was Robert Swartzman (who is not in IndyCar this year), but this change plays into the hands of Indy 500 veterans.
    Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 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
  • The defending champions are 8-3 in those games.
    Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • And to the extent that there's no debate over the team crowned as national champions, it's worked.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
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“Diggers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diggers. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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