as in battlefield
a place where a battle takes place
the verdant hill suddenly turned into a bloody battleground
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Buttigieg's decision comes as both the U.S. Senate and governor races in Michigan, a key battleground state, heat up.
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Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Photograph: Simon Hill; Getty Images The main battleground of flagship smartphones for several years has been photography, but the camera cold war has led to increasingly large camera modules.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2025
But the 8th District, once a Democratic stronghold and later a battleground, has moved safely into the red category.
—Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2025
The Politics of Brutalism Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war.
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
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Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Photograph: Simon Hill; Getty Images The main battleground of flagship smartphones for several years has been photography, but the camera cold war has led to increasingly large camera modules.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2025
But the 8th District, once a Democratic stronghold and later a battleground, has moved safely into the red category.
—Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2025
The Politics of Brutalism Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war.
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Battleground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battleground. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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