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synonyms for excavator

  • backhoe
  • bulldozer
  • digger
  • heavy machinery
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excavator, such as: backhoe, bulldozer, digger, and heavy machinery.

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One that comes to mind is I took my friend’s car, lowered it into a pool with an excavator, told him about it.
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Because most cities are built in layers, with older structures gradually buried beneath the new, excavators must destroy the upper layers to reach further back in time.
HOW TECHNOLOGY HELPED ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIG DEEPERANNALEE NEWITZAPRIL 28, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Projects are often complex, and involve excavators and bulldozers to shore up streambanks using giant boulders or to construct brand-new channels.
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Workers operating a tractor or an excavator while installing a drainage tile, a house foundation, or a new pipeline, perhaps, come upon an abandoned line.
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But, in light of Polly’s great-grandfather’s work as a famous excavator of myths, a la Joseph Campbell, we might also see such coincidences as reflections of a larger, more intricate design than the tangled branches of one family tree.
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To protect his property, Hanzawa brought in an excavator and dumped mounds of boulders along the public beach fronting the homes, forming large, sloping walls along the shoreline.
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If they are Ancients and dead then let them be buried and left to the archæological excavator.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
He must have been an erudite excavator, but, in literature, a reader only of recent minor poetry.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANG
That is, he said he was an excavator, but I never saw anything before that looked at all like him.
US AND THE BOTTLEMANEDITH BALLINGER PRICE
The Red Ant (Myrmica rubra) plies, according to circumstances, the trade of a mason or excavator.
THE INSECT WORLDLOUIS FIGUIER
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WORDS RELATED TO EXCAVATOR

  • archaeologian
  • classicist
  • excavator
  • paleologist
  • paleontologist
  • prehistorian
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