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
That meeting plunged Frisco — an affluent Collin County suburb known for high-ranking schools and a thriving business climate — into the precarious national battleground over race, identity, immigration and opportunity.
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Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
Compared with 2020, in 2024 young voters swung to Trump in every key battleground state except Georgia.
—Sarah Longwell, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2026
As her feelings become more intense, her kitchen becomes a battleground where love, loyalty, tradition collide.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
And in recent weeks, the DNC has at times turned to Kelly, the battleground senator from Arizona, to help bring in cash.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
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Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
Compared with 2020, in 2024 young voters swung to Trump in every key battleground state except Georgia.
—Sarah Longwell, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2026
As her feelings become more intense, her kitchen becomes a battleground where love, loyalty, tradition collide.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
And in recent weeks, the DNC has at times turned to Kelly, the battleground senator from Arizona, to help bring in cash.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
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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,
22 Feb. 2026
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Both Moscow and Kyiv have cutting-edge drone warfare capabilities forged in the grim laboratory of war where battlefield innovations have rewritten modern battle tactics.—
SAM McNEIL,
Arkansas Online,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Battleground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battleground. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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