killing zone

Examples

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• IEDs keep our troops in the Taliban killing zone while they aren't in ours.

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• In the killing zone, the term "Janjaweed" was synonymous with bandit, as these horse- or camel-borne fighters were known to swoop in on non-Arab farms and steal livestock.

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• The place looks like a killing zone.

  Survivor (2015)

• I was still in the killing zone.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Get away from the black killing zone where you will.

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• Setting up a killing zone outside the barrier? - That's good.

  No Escape (1994)

• There's a kind of obvious point I read about in John Keegan's excellent book "The Face of Battle." The way to win a battle is to get the enemy in your killing zone while staying out of his killing zone.

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• There's a kind of obvious point I read about in John Keegan's excellent book "The Face of Battle." The way to win a battle is to get the enemy in your killing zone while staying out of his killing zone.

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• He couldn't believe how far we could ride without ever seeing another person (I carry a survival kit when I ride), thought about the wall-to-wall roaches where he lives, and he knew it was only a matter of time before his neighborhood turned into a racial killing zone.

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• The battlefield was transformed into a killing zone after the ambush.

Synonyms

K

killing field

vskilling zone

• NSFW

9 8.8

An area where many people were killed during war or violence

also covers areas that may be deadly rather than only past massacres

K

kill zone

vskilling zone

• Jargon

9 8.4

An area where people are very likely to be killed during an attack

includes both places of past deaths and those likely to be killed

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