warzone

British

/ ˈwɔːˌzəʊn /

noun

an area where a war is taking place or there is some other violent conflict

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"But some of the calls I've been getting from back home, people think we're in all out warzone. It's very small, concentrated areas."

From BBC

Dougie Maguire, regional co-ordinator at Unite the Union, said drivers regularly faced a "warzone" situation on buses and in stations.

From BBC

A correspondent based in Ukraine lamented losing her job "in the middle of a warzone".

From BBC

What normally would have been an intersection full of chilly Saturday morning brunch-goers had become something akin to a warzone, as federal agents tried to break up the protestors gathered around the site of the shooting, at the intersection of Nicollet and 26th Street.

From Slate

Prof Shahram Kordasti, an Iranian oncologist based in London, told the BBC's Newsday programme on Tuesday that the last message he had received from a colleague in Tehran said: "In most hospitals, it's like a warzone. We are short of supplies, short of blood."

From BBC

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