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
Large groups of people milled around displays of Israeli drones and other battlefield tech, speaking with company representatives at the bustling pavilion and asking questions about the hardware.
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
The first episode opens in a war zone in Syria, 1941, where the adrenaline rush of the battlefield sinks its terrible claws into Dorrigo, the rookie medical officer, who is unable to save a small boy or another soldier whose body is blown apart by a landmine.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
Unlike his predecessors, Lincoln could receive in-the-moment battlefield reports and instantly relay orders and strategies to his generals.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Number two, this can't be ended on the battlefield.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2025
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
The first episode opens in a war zone in Syria, 1941, where the adrenaline rush of the battlefield sinks its terrible claws into Dorrigo, the rookie medical officer, who is unable to save a small boy or another soldier whose body is blown apart by a landmine.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
Unlike his predecessors, Lincoln could receive in-the-moment battlefield reports and instantly relay orders and strategies to his generals.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Number two, this can't be ended on the battlefield.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 16 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 13 Mar. 2025.
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