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battlefronts

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plural of battlefront

as in fortresses

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The history of castles is, of course, also filled with gruesome details, and some of the most famous fortresses served as prisons and sites of torture and execution.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
The structures include monasteries and fortresses that showcase the reign of the Lombards, who played a major role in the development of medieval European Christianity.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of fortresses

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Their statement comes as roughly 2,500 Salvadoran soldiers deployed by President Nayib Bukele join the fight against armed groups in Haiti, and a separate drone task force intensifies attacks on their strongholds.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
Republican Senator Dan Sullivan clawed back ground on Democrat Mary Peltola in the tight Alaska Senate race on Wednesday but suffered a setback in one of the state's GOP strongholds.

— Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of strongholds

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At the start of this election cycle, the notion that Democrats would seriously compete in such deep-red bastions as Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas would have seemed absurd.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Democrats won several statewide races in places long considered GOP bastions, including races that were considered insurmountable even weeks ago.

— Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of bastions

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And so to have soccer fields — and until this week the country’s national soccer stadium, Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 15 Nov. 2026
Jones, a venture capitalist and nonprofit executive who grew up in a working-class household, will now lead a district that was redrawn under Proposition 50 to stretch from the vast wineries of Napa County to the rice fields of Sutter County.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2026

Definition of fields

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McCord will rely on a run game that will undoubtedly face a lot of eight-man fronts, a strategy that has worked for opponents in the past two games.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
Massie, a Kentucky Republican who has broken with the administration on a number of fronts over the past year, originally introduced impeachment articles against the defense secretary in September.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2026

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