battlefields

plural of battlefield
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 In its early years, the flag was primarily used on battlefields, military forts, and ships as a form of identification. Pete Cuddihy, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026 The Greatest Generation defended freedom on battlefields around the world. Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery. ABC News, 2 July 2026 But they’re used to an older style of war, fought on open battlefields. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2026 Months later, President Abraham Lincoln would return to the battlefields to give his famous address recognizing the Union dead. Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026 Once a president can recast criminal law enforcement as war, the danger is not confined to Venezuela or foreign battlefields. Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 The Army in the next four to six weeks plans to set up at least two domestic ranges that mimic realistic conditions on Ukraine battlefields, according to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 23 June 2026 Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history. Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
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Noun
  • This means the shortage isn’t limited to highly technical fields.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
  • Fair wages, safe housing, shade and water in the fields, and reasonable workplace protections should be the floor, not the ceiling.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026
Noun
  • Interviewers spoke with 3,659 likely voters between June 15 and 29, 2026, in the Senate battlegrounds of Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.
    New York Times, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • The high-profile races for governor and Congress are consuming almost all of Florida’s political oxygen, but Broward and Palm Beach counties are battlegrounds for some intensely competitive primary and general election contests for the state Senate and state House of Representatives.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Its ocean boasts rich fishing grounds and critical seabed minerals.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
  • Other properties on the Fan Fest grounds are actually rentals.
    Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026

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“Battlefields.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlefields. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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