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Discover LudwigThe word 'digger' is a correct and commonly used term in written English
'Digger' can refer to a person or machine that digs, excavates, or moves earth or other materials. It can also be used as a slang term to describe someone who is industrious or works hard. Example 1: The construction site was abuzz with the sound of diggers breaking through the ground. Example 2: He was known as a digger, always willing to roll up his sleeves and work long hours to get the job done. Example 3: The archaeologist carefully used a digger to uncover the ancient artifacts buried beneath the soil. Example 4: The kids were fascinated by the giant mechanical digger at the park, watching in awe as it dug up dirt and rocks. Example 5: The reporter described the group of volunteers as modern-day diggers, dedicated to uncovering the truth behind the corruption scandal.
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digger
noun
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
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Of the black digger opening the Anzac Day dawn service with the yidaki, Nelson said: "Which says a lot, without actually saying a single word".
The plan for Canberra was correspondingly redrawn to include the Australian War Memorial whose concept came to the country's official first world war historian, Charles Bean, after a dying digger on the European western front asked if the people back home would remember him.
No conviction has been awarded against the former Wallabies captain David Pocock, who locked himself to a digger during a NSW coalmine protest.
Mr Fraser said a considerable amount of debris had been deposited over the past 10 years, so the first job would be to level the ground using a JCB digger.
So it seems this year the Blairs are off to Barbados to stay with either (depending on your choice of daily newspaper) top Christian and Wimbledon a cappella ace Sir Cliff Richard (a £3 million mansion) or leading Tory backer and JCB digger maestro Sir Anthony Bamford at his Heron Bay paddette (no price available, but recently refurbished for countless millions).
Pocock was arrested after chaining himself to the digger for 10 hours as part of a blockade at the Maules Creek coalmine in New South Wales's Leard state forest in November.
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Indeed, though he was eventually exonerated, a student from the University of South Florida ended up doing a stint on a prison chain gang for "stealing" the intellectual property he created.Even industry is starting to complain about a gold-digger mentality among academic administrators.
A burly dealer-digger in Marvinci says that poverty has turned looting, chiefly of jewellery, from ancient Greek and Roman tombs into a "fight for survival".
The question the interviewer kept coming back to was, essentially, "is she a gold-digger?
Root crops are harvested with diggers and digger-pickers, which often pull up clods, stones, and vines with the crop.
The press painted her as a gold-digger and she simmered quietly until the marriage hit the rocks, the soft-porn pictures hit the pages of The Sun, and Heather's frustration boiled over in one great pouty-mouthed paroxysm of rage.
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