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battleground

[bat-uhl-graund] / ˈbæt əlˌgraʊnd /


NOUN
field of honor
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Let the body remember that it is more than a battleground.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

For Lilly and Novo Nordisk, anti-obesity pills are the next battleground for control of the market, an opportunity to capture people who didn’t want to inject themselves with shots.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

"Mistrust is the real battleground," WHO chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, wrote on social media, external in June.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Years before social media became a political battleground, Fincher was focused on something more basic — the fear that everyone else had been invited to a party you couldn’t get into.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Every field looked as if it had been a battleground, with the yellow blood of the pumpkins on every stone.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

Voting has been cancelled in dozens of lower house constituencies, many known battlegrounds or regions where rebels run parallel administrations beyond the junta's reach.

From Barron's Jan. 10, 2026

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

People visiting the Gettysburg battlegrounds or historic district often report seeing spirits still dressed in uniform wandering about town.

From MarketWatch Oct. 27, 2025

Hurricane Helene tore through two key electoral battlegrounds last week, Georgia and North Carolina.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2024

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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