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
It’s set against the battlefields of World War I and the 18th-century Scottish Highlands, as these two couples overcome the obstacles that seek to tear them apart.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 July 2025
Artists, spies, soldiers, intellectuals, and prisoners of war, these Patriots fired salvos against the king on the walls of the Royal Academy as well as on the battlefields of Virginia and Massachusetts.
—Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Tempest’s description evokes a dreamlike horror, laced with black humor:
Men were still stuck in the mud all over the battlefield, imploring help to lift them out : half crazy with the sense of their own impotence, and the enemy shelling. . . .
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Last year, Ukraine turned a corner of Russia into a battlefield.
—New York Times, 13 July 2025
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 July 2025
Artists, spies, soldiers, intellectuals, and prisoners of war, these Patriots fired salvos against the king on the walls of the Royal Academy as well as on the battlefields of Virginia and Massachusetts.
—Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Tempest’s description evokes a dreamlike horror, laced with black humor:
Men were still stuck in the mud all over the battlefield, imploring help to lift them out : half crazy with the sense of their own impotence, and the enemy shelling. . . .
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Last year, Ukraine turned a corner of Russia into a battlefield.
—New York Times, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlefield
Noun
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Baseball’s technical folks put three-dimensional images on the Truist Park field of the Los Angeles Dodgers players at their positions from that night of April 8, 1974 at old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.—
Terence Moore,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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To satisfy presidential demands, field offices are directed to meet new daily arrest quotas—75 arrests per office—raising agency-wide targets to 1,200–1,500 arrests per day, up from only about a few hundred.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
15 July 2025
Noun
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The White House aims to avoid a messy primary in the critical battleground state and is determining how to engage in the race.—
Hannah Demissie,
ABC News,
22 July 2025
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Her campaign failed to gain traction and Trump went on to win all seven battleground states, defying polls that showed Harris was the favorite.—
Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
24 July 2025
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The Trump administration launched an investigation into pharmaceutical imports in mid-April, setting the stage to impose tariffs on national security grounds.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
24 July 2025
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“Battlefield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battlefield. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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