as in battlefields
a place where a battle takes place
the verdant hill suddenly turned into a bloody battleground
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Recent Examples of battlegrounds
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.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Democratic angst following the loss to Trump last year has contributed to the trend in at least five races that could determine the majority, from core battlegrounds like Michigan and Maine to long-shot targets like Iowa and Texas.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
Of all the battlegrounds in Washington’s technology war with Beijing, the Great Rift Valley may be the most beautiful.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Georgia has emerged as one of the nation’s most pivotal battlegrounds, flipping to President Joe Biden in 2020 and back to Trump in 2024, and delivering Democrats two Senate seats, even as Republicans have held the governor’s mansion for over two decades.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Vrabel probably adopted the practice from a former coach, Bill Belichick, who used to preach before every Patriots game that winning rested on wrestling control of a few battlegrounds.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Cracker Barrel’s episode illustrates the impossibility of separating branding decisions from America’s cultural battlegrounds.
—Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, all of these big battlegrounds have lost Democrats in large numbers, again, just this decade.
—ABC News, 24 Aug. 2025
Hodges knew that in the mid-1960s, where schools remained racial battlegrounds, a young Black woman could not openly carry a gun.
—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Democratic angst following the loss to Trump last year has contributed to the trend in at least five races that could determine the majority, from core battlegrounds like Michigan and Maine to long-shot targets like Iowa and Texas.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
Of all the battlegrounds in Washington’s technology war with Beijing, the Great Rift Valley may be the most beautiful.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Georgia has emerged as one of the nation’s most pivotal battlegrounds, flipping to President Joe Biden in 2020 and back to Trump in 2024, and delivering Democrats two Senate seats, even as Republicans have held the governor’s mansion for over two decades.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Vrabel probably adopted the practice from a former coach, Bill Belichick, who used to preach before every Patriots game that winning rested on wrestling control of a few battlegrounds.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Cracker Barrel’s episode illustrates the impossibility of separating branding decisions from America’s cultural battlegrounds.
—Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, all of these big battlegrounds have lost Democrats in large numbers, again, just this decade.
—ABC News, 24 Aug. 2025
Hodges knew that in the mid-1960s, where schools remained racial battlegrounds, a young Black woman could not openly carry a gun.
—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlegrounds
battlefields
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And as the superpowers moved on from Cold War battlefields, the ideological paradigms that had once made Central American revolutions feel globally significant faded with them.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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From golf carts to battlefields Built in China, the Dessertcross 1000-3 was never intended for war.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Battlegrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlegrounds. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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