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battleground

[bat-uhl-graund] / ˈbæt əlˌgraʊnd /


NOUN
field of honor
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Plus, how AI could help short-staffed fire departments, the silent electronic battleground shaping warfare, and the startup trying to double the world’s compute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

WSJ’s Robbie Gramer: Idaho, deeply Republican and mostly rural, is about the furthest you could get from a battleground state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

A product conference at software giant Salesforce turned into the battleground on the new debate on whether there should be a slowdown in artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The glory lights up the world and changes it the way a star shell changes a battleground.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

After criss-crossing the vast nation in recent weeks, the two men are making a final push for votes in the key southeastern battlegrounds of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Pronto envisions unmanned tanks aiding firefighters in other former battlegrounds such as Syria and—eventually—Ukraine, part of an array of devices aiding firefighting in hazardous terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

In California, that looks like a paradox: The state has both a shrinking number of political battlegrounds and a handful of critical races that could help decide which party controls the House.

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

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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