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war zone

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A region where war is ongoing.

A region where structures are damaged or in disarray, appearing similar to the effects of a military conflict.

By extension, any area with a significant display of damage or disarray.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football.... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. Camille Paglia

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. John le Carré

The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone. John Ashcroft

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened. Alicia Witt

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. Christiane Amanpour

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. Ariel Gore

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