- plural of battle.
battles
Example Sentences
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Some people will always want their superhero TV shows to feature battles and explosions every week.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The campaign is playing out against an unusually combustible mix of economic anxiety, war, immigration battles, corruption concerns and unease over rapidly expanding artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The hope is that the only battles which take place in the coming days are in the Belfast courtroom and the Stormont chamber, and not on the streets of Portadown.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“It took almost two years of ground battles in the last war for the Tigrayans to get close enough to Addis to seriously threaten the capital,” Hudson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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