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Discover LudwigThe phrase "at battle" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used in contexts discussing conflict or warfare, but "in battle" is more standard.
Example: "The soldiers found themselves at battle, facing overwhelming odds."
Alternatives: "in combat" or "engaged in battle".
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(Their father, who'd lost the family fortune, was away at battle).
"We're still at battle, man," Sergeant Hartman, 43, said as he gestured to the other soldiers.
One was labeled, "View on Battle-field: Group of Louisiana Regiment, as they fell, at Battle of Antietam".
A U. S. destroyer creeping through enemy-infested waters at dawn, with all hands at battle stations.
In Richmond, we found they were cutting across entrenchment lines at battle sites to put in driveways for new houses".
General Powell, who was national security adviser to Mr. Reagan, is as deft at politics as at battle planning.
But there is a legend and certain evidence that biryani was once (perhaps first) a wholesome, filling meal prepared to nourish warriors at battle.
In the months following Mr Jarvis' death, the attendance of his grieving youngest son, Adam, 11, at Battle Primary School in Reading dropped to 45 per cent.
The conversation starts at battle speed and soon changes up to full Glaswegian ramming rate: nothing is missed and no one is spared.
With their victory at Battle of the Year and with other South Korean crews becoming well known too, b-boying exploded in the country's popular culture.
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The 24th Infantry suffered 267 killed, 796 wounded, one captured and two missing during its time at the Pusan Perimeter, of which 450 were wounded and 150 were killed at Battle Mountain.
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