battleground
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The effort comes as civil rights groups pursue their own election-protection initiatives, including Vote Safe, which has begun deploying trained community volunteers to polling locations in several battleground states.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
A sliver of meadow and trees on the edge of Yosemite National Park has become an unlikely battleground over whether development is allowed in national parks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Over the years, Muchtar and his school – as well as the Shiddiqiyyah complex it sits in – have drawn public figures looking for support in what is a key political battleground.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Minister of State Security Chen Yixin on Sunday described AI as "the main battleground" for global competition "and a new track for major power strategic rivalry."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
She walked with the look of a moveable battleground.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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California is not alone in having fewer battlegrounds; no state has a high concentration of competitive seats this cycle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
But where are the key battlegrounds which will decide the election, and which will give us an idea of how things are shaping up?
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
"Too many countries are retreating into geopolitical blocs or the battlegrounds of protectionism," he said, but added: "In every rupture resides the responsibility to build -- nostalgia is not a strategy."
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
Years before the U.S. military set off for battlegrounds in Cuba and the Philippines, rebels in both places had begun to fight for independence from the decrepit Spanish empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
Kennedy and his crew had been patrolling passages in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific, one of many World War II battlegrounds between the United States and Japan.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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