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battlegrounds

noun

plural of battleground

as in battlefields

a place where a battle takes place the verdant hill suddenly turned into a bloody battleground

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Recent Examples of battlegrounds Follow the latest numbers, including data breakdowns by party and tallies in states with competitive Senate battlegrounds. — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 On one side, Democratic candidates have turned into absolute cash cows, raising oodles more than their Republican rivals across Senate and House battlegrounds. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026 The commercial is just a drop in the bucket relative to the more than $250 million both parties have poured into Maine, one of the top Senate battlegrounds of the 2026 cycle. — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2026 Trump has largely steered clear of political battlegrounds in his travels so far, focusing on red states and friendly crowds at a moment when Republicans worry that his unpopularity could drag down the party. — Sagar Meghani, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with Senate Republicans, has spent more than $18 million in the race, one of the most competitive battlegrounds to determine control of the Senate. — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2026 The two southern battlegrounds were initially top targets of both political parties, but now appear to be slipping away from Republicans as Democrats grow eager about their chances. — Halle Troadec, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 That’s important because GOP super PACs that are pouring money into the Senate battlegrounds receive worse ad rates. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Any dollar that stays in Georgia is one that can’t be spent on competitive races in perennial battlegrounds like Maine, Michigan or Ohio — or new hot spots such as Iowa, Kansas and Texas where Republicans once were seen as locks. — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026

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Moscow — By agreeing to open Russia’s taps and release hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel into a starving global market, the Kremlin has achieved something that raw military might on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine could never deliver.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026
Deepening ties between Russia and Iran have been improving prospects for both countries on their respective battlefields, from Ukraine to the Middle East.

— Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2026

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