battle zone
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During “SNL‘’s summer hiatus, late-night became a battle zone amid the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show and a brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s under pressure from a Federal Communications Commission official.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
And in the battle zone, artillery stocks have dwindled alarmingly, the senior U.S. commander in Europe warned Congress on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Thousands of miles from the front in Ukraine, the embassy compound has become a battle zone of its own.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2023
The place they, too, had known their whole lives was suddenly a battle zone, with activists and police facing off.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2021
A Viet Cong suspect, whose injured leg was bandaged by a US Marines medic, is carried to an interrogation area in a battle zone, 1965.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
