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 The two battleground districts are linked by freeways on either side of the valley. Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025 A day earlier, the National Republican Congressional Committee issued a strategy memo to win battleground districts centering on Mamdani. Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025 Published with our TechLine newsletter, Rendering will examine how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025 Our beauty on political battlegrounds may seem harmless at best, tactical at worst. Akilah Sailers, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for battleground
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battlefield
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  • Seamless stitching and different coloration on the Creature’s body reflects how Victor has pieced it together via dead soldiers and parts found on the battlefield.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Solzbacher envisions a lot of uses for BCI technology on the battlefield and among firefighters and other first responders, who could control the tools of their trades with their thoughts.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Battleground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battleground. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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