battleground
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De La Cruz was among the battleground Republicans to warn the White House that ICE should focus on criminals and not law-abiding people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The effort comes as civil rights groups pursue their own election-protection initiatives, including Vote Safe, which has begun deploying trained community volunteers to polling locations in several battleground states.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
WSJ’s Robbie Gramer: Idaho, deeply Republican and mostly rural, is about the furthest you could get from a battleground state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Taiz has been a major battleground in the country's devastating civil war.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
When in conversation they came to the battleground of difference, their verbal sparring was full of good humor.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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None of these races were all that close, and those were just the chief battlegrounds.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
After criss-crossing the vast nation in recent weeks, the two men are making a final push for votes in the key southeastern battlegrounds of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Pronto envisions unmanned tanks aiding firefighters in other former battlegrounds such as Syria and—eventually—Ukraine, part of an array of devices aiding firefighting in hazardous terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In California, that looks like a paradox: The state has both a shrinking number of political battlegrounds and a handful of critical races that could help decide which party controls the House.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Kennedy and his crew had been patrolling passages in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific, one of many World War II battlegrounds between the United States and Japan.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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