battleground
Americannoun
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battlegrounds
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the area where a battle is fought in a war; battlefield.
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a subject of discourse or area of activity characterized by much conflict.
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A battleground is a piece of land on which a war or battle is fought. You can visit many of the battlegrounds of the US Civil War. The literal meaning of battleground is just what it sounds like: the ground on which a battle has been waged. You can also use the word for the site of a figurative battle, like an election or a vote on a controversial issue. "Battleground states" are those in which the vote between two parties could swing either way, since neither holds a firm majority.
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“Prop. 50 did help me out of the battleground districts in California,” Tran said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
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
Taiz has been a major battleground in the country's devastating civil war.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
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
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
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
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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