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 Regardless, Nashville will soon become a battleground for the tech giants. Chris Kirkham, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025 In Gaza, in Ukraine, and in other battlegrounds around the world, photojournalists and reporters continue to risk their lives to document the brutal impact of war on combatants and innocent civilians. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025 Another Central Valley battleground district, the 22nd, would likely remain centered around Delano and keep much of its clubfoot that dips into Bakersfield to the south. Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025 Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch. Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for battleground
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battlefield
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  • Because once peaceful protest is accepted as terrorism, every crowd becomes a potential battlefield and every citizen a suspect.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Typhon is essentially a large tractor-trailer and lacks the mobility needed for the battlefields of Ukraine.
    Chris Boccia, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Battleground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battleground. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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