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  • noun Plural form of battlefield.

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Examples

  • On that same day in Washington the State Department used the term battlefields to describe its confrontations with Tehran.

    CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007 2007

  • On that same day in Washington the State Department used the term battlefields to describe its confrontations with Tehran.

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007 2007

  • Are you saying that detaining people who are plucked off the battlefields is an assault on democracy?

    Are You Kidding Me? 2007

  • Though northern Baja is one of the main battlefields and things have been rather quiet toward the Southern tip, there have been incidents lately in Cabo San Lucas where Canadian tourists have been caught in crossfire at a nightclub.

    Concern for MX Govt 2009

  • The vision of an evil naked snow witch stalking the battlefields is going to stay with you for many years ... truly the definition of "haunting".

    Rare Pulp Science Fiction, Issue 3 2008

  • Reviewed by Terry Castle ( "Gender Bending," September 2005) "Keegan's now classic description of what it was like to be an ordinary soldier on the Agincourt, Waterloo, or Somme battlefields is harrowing, humane, profound."

    Books in Brief 2005

  • Keegan's now classic description of what it was like to be an ordinary soldier on the Agincourt, Waterloo, or Somme battlefields is harrowing, humane, profound.

    Gender Bending 2005

  • Reviewed by Terry Castle ( "Gender Bending," September 2005) "Keegan's now classic description of what it was like to be an ordinary soldier on the Agincourt, Waterloo, or Somme battlefields is harrowing, humane, profound."

    Books in Brief 2005

  • Keegan's now classic description of what it was like to be an ordinary soldier on the Agincourt, Waterloo, or Somme battlefields is harrowing, humane, profound.

    Gender Bending 2005

  • Nor should we forget that even now there are men who lay Jacobite garlands at the foot of statues, and on commemorative cairns in battlefields, and who drink to "Charlie over the water."

    France Through Canadian Eyes 1917

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