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

Another Kharkiv recruit headed for the battle zone asked Moskovitz to tutor him on blowing the shofar, the ram’s horn that is sounded for Rosh Hashana and a few other occasions.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023

Kareem, who two years ago fled the chaos caused by the civil war in his home country, Syria, has found himself once more in the middle of a battle zone - this time in Sudan.

From BBC • May 13, 2023

BOROVA, Ukraine — The battle zone east of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, is a mileslong territory of muddy roads, blasted intersections and destroyed bridges.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2022

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