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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 The trade war could have an outsized impact on the political environment in several key states that are midterms battlegrounds, including Michigan, Ohio, Maine Iowa and Alaska. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 While Colorado and Massachusetts have gone Democratic in recent presidential elections, Pennsylvania has been among the biggest battlegrounds. — Mike Catalini, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 The backlash to the massive server warehouses is enveloping races for governor in some of the nation’s biggest states and presidential battlegrounds. — Marc Levy, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026 But the other battlegrounds of Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, and Texas have disappointed Democrats in recent years and are tight enough to go either way. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Abdul El-Sayed proved that a progressive can win a statewide Democratic primary in one of the nation's biggest battlegrounds. — Averi Harper, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 California is seen as one of the key battlegrounds for how the technology is regulated across the country. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026 Many of the battlegrounds are set, and a few are yet to be decided in primaries, but the answer remains murky. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 27 July 2026 The state has long been one of the country’s premier political battlegrounds, making the race an early test of whether socialism can expand beyond Democratic strongholds and compete statewide. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 17 July 2026

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battlefields

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The ministry plans to introduce an integrated AI platform in command and control to improve speed and accuracy in decision-making, including assessing battlefields and choosing targets.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Qatar became the first country to buy TB2s in 2018, years before that drone proved itself over several battlefields in 2020, from Libya and Syria to the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, gaining it global recognition.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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