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 Both the Minnesota governor and Moore have made trips around the country, traveling to battleground, red and blue states alike. Filip Timotija, The Hill, 31 May 2025 Bars and restaurants will flip their big-screen TVs to the games as patrons toast to the Florida Panthers’ third consecutive visit to the fourth-round playoff battleground. Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2025 The meet will double as a battleground for the ongoing culture war over trans athletes in girls' sports, with a trans athlete set to compete in multiple girls' events. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025 The state has emerged as one of the closest battlegrounds, backing Trump in 2016 and 2024 but voting for Joe Biden in 2020. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for battleground
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battlefield
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  • For the Kremlin, standing between Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize is risky, but agreeing to a cease-fire while Russia is making steady, if incremental, gains on the battlefield is a step too far.
    Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
  • Though being able to identify and pursue targets can make even a rudimentary swarm more dangerous, the ability to soak up the defender’s data, share that information with other drones and adjust based on what’s happening on the battlefield is far more lethal.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 16 June 2025

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

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