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  • noun Plural form of earthmover.

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Examples

  • Helicopters are ferrying rescue workers and emergency supplies, while paramilitary troops use earthmovers to clear landslides on highways linking the region to the rest of India.

    Death toll at 79 for quake in India, Nepal, China 2011

  • Residents at the scene, where several bulldozers and earthmovers pawed through the rubble searching for any other bodies, maintained there were no military targets in the area.

    Libyan government shows reporters NATO bomb sites 2011

  • In a slower-growth global economy, or a world in which China will no longer be able to afford to build empty cities, the world will need a lot fewer earthmovers.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Set the Bar High Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2011

  • Take Caterpillar, the maker of big tractors and giant earthmovers.

    Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Set the Bar High Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2011

  • Helicopters are ferrying rescue workers and emergency supplies, while paramilitary troops use earthmovers to clear landslides on highways linking the region to the rest of India.

    Death toll at 79 for quake in India, Nepal, China 2011

  • Even as the earthmovers tore the last contorted chunks of rebar and concrete from the ruined pit, Qana already was history, a ready-made icon of martyrdom and victimhood.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • Undaunted, Hezbollah dispatched engineers and earthmovers to the Litani River.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • After hours of noise and scrambling the rescue crews and their earthmovers ceased, and quiet fell over the dazed town.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • SCOTT SIMON, host: In Haiti, giant earthmovers are tearing away at the rubble from last month's devastating earthquake.

    Port-Au-Prince Journal: Lives Filled With Fear 2010

  • At Mechanical Devices, which supplies parts for earthmovers and other heavy equipment to manufacturers such as Caterpillar Inc., part owner

    Some Firms Struggle to Hire Despite High Unemployment 2010

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