as in field
a place where a battle takes place
wounded soldiers being carried off the battlefield
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Recent Examples of battlefield
There are extensive drawbacks to using nuclear weapons, including their very destructiveness—which could undermine larger objectives or complicate battlefield operations—and the international backlash that would follow.
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Paul Avey, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
Tanks and other resources can be seen in satellite imagery, and the motor pools full of old ones empty out as they get shipped to the battlefield and obliterated.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Experts say Ukraine and its European partners now produce most of the weaponry destined for the battlefield.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
Many who escaped the battlefield were hunted down and executed.
—Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
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Paul Avey, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2025
Tanks and other resources can be seen in satellite imagery, and the motor pools full of old ones empty out as they get shipped to the battlefield and obliterated.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
Experts say Ukraine and its European partners now produce most of the weaponry destined for the battlefield.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
Many who escaped the battlefield were hunted down and executed.
—Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlefield
Noun
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Herro started slow, finding himself with just two points on 1-of-5 shooting from the field midway through the second quarter.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
8 Mar. 2025
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The corn and sugarcane fields of Punjab and Haryana had given way, by the second day, to fields of millet and soybean and lines of orange trees.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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His criticism stems from a September 2024 visit to a munitions plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a battleground state that narrowly backed Trump in November.—
Andrew Stanton,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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But the real battleground is shifting from the underlying models to how humans interact with them.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Place landscape cloth on level ground to block weed growth, and construct walls at least 12 inches deep and at least 20 inches to grow root vegetables.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
2 Mar. 2025
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Accommodations for this ticket include the choice of either a four-stateroom yacht or four-bedroom villa with access to the festival grounds for three nights.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Battlefield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlefield. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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