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
Rendering examines 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, 14 Jan. 2026
But lobbyists can’t change the fact that AI and data centers are emerging grassroots battlegrounds.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
But lobbyists can’t change the fact that AI and data centers are emerging grassroots battlegrounds.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
Six years later, Vrabel can see the Chargers coming to fight the Patriots on those same battlegrounds.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
After Biden dropped out of the race and former Vice President Kamala Harris was tapped to lead the ticket, Harris turned to Walz as her pick for vice president, opting for the former football coach from a blue state over contenders from more traditional presidential battlegrounds.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
From the Civil War battlegrounds of Gettysburg to the birthplace of the fearsome Dracula in Transylvania, this Travel Channel show proves that Bagans and his team shy away from no haunted location.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Sahel’s Expanding Militancy In Africa’s Sahel region, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger remain central battlegrounds as al-Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates push toward coastal West Africa, exploiting political transitions, weak institutions, and shifting alliances.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
Both Republicans and Democrats, however, increasingly see classrooms as ideological battlegrounds, and nowhere is the divide more stark than on the teaching of gender and policies regarding transgender students and teachers.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2026
But lobbyists can’t change the fact that AI and data centers are emerging grassroots battlegrounds.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
But lobbyists can’t change the fact that AI and data centers are emerging grassroots battlegrounds.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
Six years later, Vrabel can see the Chargers coming to fight the Patriots on those same battlegrounds.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
After Biden dropped out of the race and former Vice President Kamala Harris was tapped to lead the ticket, Harris turned to Walz as her pick for vice president, opting for the former football coach from a blue state over contenders from more traditional presidential battlegrounds.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
From the Civil War battlegrounds of Gettysburg to the birthplace of the fearsome Dracula in Transylvania, this Travel Channel show proves that Bagans and his team shy away from no haunted location.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Sahel’s Expanding Militancy In Africa’s Sahel region, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger remain central battlegrounds as al-Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates push toward coastal West Africa, exploiting political transitions, weak institutions, and shifting alliances.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
Both Republicans and Democrats, however, increasingly see classrooms as ideological battlegrounds, and nowhere is the divide more stark than on the teaching of gender and policies regarding transgender students and teachers.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlegrounds
battlefields
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Local news, which would become its primary franchise, was secondary to informing isolated Idahoans on the latest from the battlefields and the East and the West coasts.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Dec. 2025
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These cuts threaten the hundreds of sites within the national parks system, which includes monuments, historic sites, and battlefields.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Battlegrounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlegrounds. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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