battle zone
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During “SNL‘’s summer hiatus, late-night became a battle zone amid the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show and a brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s under pressure from a Federal Communications Commission official.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Thousands of miles from the front in Ukraine, the embassy compound has become a battle zone of its own.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2023
On Friday, which for Eastern rite Christians is Good Friday, Ukrainian families inside and outside the main battle zone prepared as best they could to observe Easter Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022
The place they, too, had known their whole lives was suddenly a battle zone, with activists and police facing off.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2021
As casualties mounted, Pétain did his best to spare his troops by rotating them in and out of the battle zone.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
