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
Several states are holding primary elections on Tuesday, but one of the biggest political battlegrounds is Georgia, where high-stakes House and Senate contests could shape key midterm races.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
Recent election cycles have been bleak for Florida Democrats, as the state morphed from key battleground to reliably Republican, but Emily Gregory wasn’t deterred from trying to flip a GOP seat in the state legislature.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 17 May 2026
The May 19 primaries come as Georgia remains one of the nation’s premier battleground states.
—Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
What begins as a shocking small-town incident quickly spirals into a national story, exposing how corruption, politics, and decades-long tensions turned a quaint Kansas community into a battleground over the First and Fourth Amendments.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 May 2026
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
Recent election cycles have been bleak for Florida Democrats, as the state morphed from key battleground to reliably Republican, but Emily Gregory wasn’t deterred from trying to flip a GOP seat in the state legislature.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 17 May 2026
The May 19 primaries come as Georgia remains one of the nation’s premier battleground states.
—Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
What begins as a shocking small-town incident quickly spirals into a national story, exposing how corruption, politics, and decades-long tensions turned a quaint Kansas community into a battleground over the First and Fourth Amendments.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battleground
battlefield
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At the same time, the regime has stopped bothering to sell a narrative of national restoration or modernization to the rest of the country, which is losing enormous amounts of blood and treasure in the battlefields of Ukraine.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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Now, satellites are capable of overseeing the battlefield from hundreds of miles in space.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
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“Battleground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battleground. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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