as in fields
a place where a battle takes place
wounded soldiers being carried off the battlefield
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Recent Examples of battlefields
Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country’s most famous battlefields.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park protects the battlefields surrounding the city of Chattanooga, where one of the war’s last key battles was fought, over possession of the city, seen by Abraham Lincoln as the gateway to the deep South.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
The Typhon is essentially a large tractor-trailer and lacks the mobility needed for the battlefields of Ukraine.
—Chris Boccia, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025
And as the superpowers moved on from Cold War battlefields, the ideological paradigms that had once made Central American revolutions feel globally significant faded with them.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
From golf carts to battlefields Built in China, the Dessertcross 1000-3 was never intended for war.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
During the second half of the nineteenth century, politics and military service often made a large nation feel like a small world, as white men in power repeatedly crossed paths in Washington, DC, on Civil War battlefields, and at frontier forts.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
The Civil War unfolded in battlefields, but also wrought the Draft Riots in New York City, during which dozens of Black residents were murdered, property was destroyed, and the city terrified.
—Annie Polland, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park protects the battlefields surrounding the city of Chattanooga, where one of the war’s last key battles was fought, over possession of the city, seen by Abraham Lincoln as the gateway to the deep South.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
The Typhon is essentially a large tractor-trailer and lacks the mobility needed for the battlefields of Ukraine.
—Chris Boccia, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025
And as the superpowers moved on from Cold War battlefields, the ideological paradigms that had once made Central American revolutions feel globally significant faded with them.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
From golf carts to battlefields Built in China, the Dessertcross 1000-3 was never intended for war.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
During the second half of the nineteenth century, politics and military service often made a large nation feel like a small world, as white men in power repeatedly crossed paths in Washington, DC, on Civil War battlefields, and at frontier forts.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
The Civil War unfolded in battlefields, but also wrought the Draft Riots in New York City, during which dozens of Black residents were murdered, property was destroyed, and the city terrified.
—Annie Polland, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlefields
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Dockery is often called the birthplace of the Delta blues, where workers toiled in the hot fields by day and sang songs of joy, pain and hope at night.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, collaborations are proving to be their go-to formula to experimenting in different fields.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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Published with our TechLine newsletter, Rendering will examine how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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LogoPowered byScale logo Voters in Virginia and New Jersey head to the polls Tuesday to decide on their next governors, days after Barack Obama stopped in both battlegrounds to boost the Democratic candidates.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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Feith wanted to keep export controls in place, on national-security grounds.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Guests can wander through Wednesday and Enid’s dorm, Principal Weems’ office, the biology lab, festival grounds, the halls of Nevermore Academy and cursed carnival rides.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Battlefields.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlefields. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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