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

It’s been “a breach, but not a breakthrough,” said Michael Kofman, a military analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who has made several visits to the battle zone.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023

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

Kareem, who two years ago fled the chaos caused by the civil war in his home country, Syria, has found himself once more in the middle of a battle zone - this time in Sudan.

From BBC • May 13, 2023

Meanwhile, French reinforcements were pouring into the battle zone.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman