earthmover
noun
earth·mov·er
ˈərth-ˌmü-vər 
: a machine (such as a bulldozer) for excavating, pushing, or transporting large quantities of earth (as in roadbuilding)
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Several Indigenous leaders and activists watched as a single earthmover tore into the top of Iron Gate Dam, starting a pivotal phase in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.
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Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
But where artists like Mr. Smithson used bulldozers and earthmovers to create radically monumental alterations in the landscape, Mr. Singer let nature take the lead.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Deere is integrating autonomy into earthmovers, road milling machines, cotton pickers, tractors, and more.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Throughout the neighborhood, earthmovers and other heavy equipment were parked along several streets where public works crews had come to clear out the creek bed — though too late to prevent the flooding.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
Combat earthmovers were digging new trench lines on a ridge just a few hundred yards farther west.
—Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
Other trees are planted on hillsides that Burke has been terracing with a rented earthmover.
—Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
The men ditched the earthmover and drove off with the ATM.
—Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
But the early morning crack that shattered through a San Tan Valley neighborhood was a Caterpillar earthmover ramming an ATM.
—Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
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Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
But where artists like Mr. Smithson used bulldozers and earthmovers to create radically monumental alterations in the landscape, Mr. Singer let nature take the lead.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Deere is integrating autonomy into earthmovers, road milling machines, cotton pickers, tractors, and more.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Throughout the neighborhood, earthmovers and other heavy equipment were parked along several streets where public works crews had come to clear out the creek bed — though too late to prevent the flooding.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2024
Combat earthmovers were digging new trench lines on a ridge just a few hundred yards farther west.
—Steve Hendrix and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
Other trees are planted on hillsides that Burke has been terracing with a rented earthmover.
—Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
The men ditched the earthmover and drove off with the ATM.
—Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
But the early morning crack that shattered through a San Tan Valley neighborhood was a Caterpillar earthmover ramming an ATM.
—Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
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“Earthmover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earthmover. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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