battlefronts

noun

plural of battlefront
as in fortresses

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  1. fortresses
  2. strongholds
  3. bastions
  4. fields
  5. fronts
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Tuesday's midterm elections catapulted Democratic Senate and gubernatorial candidates to statewide victories in Republican strongholds like Ohio and Texas, both of which play host to a number of AI data centers.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Democrats won the House, the Senate, and a majority of governorships, penetrating deep into historically red strongholds like Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of strongholds
Noun
  • 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
  • So far in Orange County, one of the Florida’s few blue bastions, Democrats account for roughly half of the ballots cast.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of bastions
Noun
  • Users can create forms or complete existing ones using text fields, checkboxes, and other elements.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As Reclamation District 108 leaves some fields dry, the goal will be to move a levee back so the river can spread out, restoring a natural floodplain, Bair said.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of fields
Noun
  • Last Sunday, New England might have provided a blueprint of sorts by playing a good amount of eight-man fronts that were designed to limit the run game.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Eisenkot has promised to close the fronts Netanyahu left open.
    — Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of fronts
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