as in battlefield
a place where a battle takes place
the verdant hill suddenly turned into a bloody battleground
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Recent Examples of battleground
Data agility has become the new battleground for competitive advantage.
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Ed MacOsky, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Virginia, once a battleground, has drifted leftward over the past decade and is now viewed as a reliably Democratic state despite Youngkin's victory in 2021.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Data sets focused on product specifications and product reviews could also serve as a new battleground for innovation and competition.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
That price tag is all but certain to grow with an open seat and as national interest in the politics of this battleground state continues to climb.
—Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Ed MacOsky, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Virginia, once a battleground, has drifted leftward over the past decade and is now viewed as a reliably Democratic state despite Youngkin's victory in 2021.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Data sets focused on product specifications and product reviews could also serve as a new battleground for innovation and competition.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
That price tag is all but certain to grow with an open seat and as national interest in the politics of this battleground state continues to climb.
—Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battleground
battlefield
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Poor weather and battlefield obscurants continue to endanger warfighters as adversaries rely on these conditions to escape attacks.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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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
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“Battleground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battleground. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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