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Recent Examples of killing field
But these things will only underscore that 1950s auto racing was a brutal killing field.
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Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
The province had been one enormous killing field, and there was nothing neat and tidy about the aftermath of a B-52 strike.
—George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
Ten years later, even those who have never set foot near Newtown, Connecticut, can conjure the scene painted by police of a first-grade classroom turned into a killing field.
—Cnn Staff, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
The fighting in Bucha intensified, and with Russian troops turning the city into a killing field, the family tried to flee by car on March 5.
—Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
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Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
The province had been one enormous killing field, and there was nothing neat and tidy about the aftermath of a B-52 strike.
—George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
Ten years later, even those who have never set foot near Newtown, Connecticut, can conjure the scene painted by police of a first-grade classroom turned into a killing field.
—Cnn Staff, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
The fighting in Bucha intensified, and with Russian troops turning the city into a killing field, the family tried to flee by car on March 5.
—Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for killing field
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Since then, Rogers has often found himself on the front lines of the faculty representatives’ enduring struggle for influence and relevance.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
29 May 2025
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Meanwhile, fighting has continued along the approximately 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, and both sides have conducted deep strikes.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Zelensky shared a map of Ukraine’s minerals with Reuters, and according to the news outlet, about half of a strip of land containing rare earths appeared to be on Russia’s side of the current battle lines.—
Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
7 Feb. 2025
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The battle lines have been drawn and are not going anywhere.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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Trump’s team is working furiously to keep the bill going on other fronts, too: seeking to discredit Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper while savaging Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for resisting the bill and its debt ceiling increase.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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Trump has repeatedly attacked Harvard on multiple fronts—accusing the school of harboring antisemitism, enrolling too many foreign students, accepting excessive foreign funding and being hostile to conservatives.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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“Killing field.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killing%20field. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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