bulldozer
noun
bull·doz·er
ˈbu̇l-ˌdō-zər 
also ˈbəl-
1
: one that bulldozes
2
: a tractor-driven machine usually having a broad horizontal blade for moving earth
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The trailer shows the pair’s various attempts to revamp Brando's island home, including showing Zane using a bulldozer as workers dig up areas around the island.
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
The mental health toll Mizrahi deployed to Gaza on October 8 last year and was tasked with driving a D-9 bulldozer, a 62-ton armored vehicle that can withstand bullets and explosives.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Elsewhere, an elderly couple were rescued from the upper story of their house by a military unit using a bulldozer, with three soldiers accompanying them in the huge shovel.
—Joseph Wilson and Teresa Medrano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Most was removed back in 1953, when the Army leveled the site with bulldozers, but tunnel-digging ants occasionally push pieces of it up to the surface.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
The mental health toll Mizrahi deployed to Gaza on October 8 last year and was tasked with driving a D-9 bulldozer, a 62-ton armored vehicle that can withstand bullets and explosives.
—Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Elsewhere, an elderly couple were rescued from the upper story of their house by a military unit using a bulldozer, with three soldiers accompanying them in the huge shovel.
—Joseph Wilson and Teresa Medrano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
Most was removed back in 1953, when the Army leveled the site with bulldozers, but tunnel-digging ants occasionally push pieces of it up to the surface.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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bulldozer
noun
bull·doz·er
ˈbu̇l-ˌdō-zər
: a piece of earth-moving equipment that rides on tracks and has a broad blade for pushing (as in clearing land of trees)
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