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
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.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
LogoPowered byScale logo Voters in Virginia and New Jersey head to the polls Tuesday to decide on their next governors, days after Barack Obama stopped in both battlegrounds to boost the Democratic candidates.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Our beauty on political battlegrounds may seem harmless at best, tactical at worst.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has successfully recruited prized political heavyweights in key battlegrounds, but left-wing insurgents are threatening to dash his plans to create a competitive midterm map for Democrats.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
If approved, the new district lines would inject Democratic voters into California’s few political battlegrounds, located in the San Joaquin Valley and southern California.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
The stands at sporting events sometimes feel like battlegrounds.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 13 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
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
LogoPowered byScale logo Voters in Virginia and New Jersey head to the polls Tuesday to decide on their next governors, days after Barack Obama stopped in both battlegrounds to boost the Democratic candidates.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Our beauty on political battlegrounds may seem harmless at best, tactical at worst.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has successfully recruited prized political heavyweights in key battlegrounds, but left-wing insurgents are threatening to dash his plans to create a competitive midterm map for Democrats.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
If approved, the new district lines would inject Democratic voters into California’s few political battlegrounds, located in the San Joaquin Valley and southern California.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
The stands at sporting events sometimes feel like battlegrounds.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 13 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlegrounds
battlefields
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Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country’s most famous battlefields.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park protects the battlefields surrounding the city of Chattanooga, where one of the war’s last key battles was fought, over possession of the city, seen by Abraham Lincoln as the gateway to the deep South.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Battlegrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlegrounds. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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