Battle
How words are described
| long | long battle | long exercise |
| normal | normal battle | normal exercise |
| true | true battle | true exercise |
| proper | proper battle | proper exercise |
| Other adjectives: difficult, actual, entire, real, hard, constant, massive, big, intense, huge, major, mock, dramatic, mental, final, grueling, last, giant, naval, largest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In the Star Wars Expanded Universe novel Before the Storm, the New Republic Fifth Battle Group goes on a live-fire military exercise against a moon armed with a hypervelocity gun, an anti-orbital weapon which is a mass accelerator rather than an energy weapon.
Source: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better - Only Kiba does not seem to know, as he is completely focused on the hero's father instead because of their battle in the past, and views the kid as being little more than a training exercise.
Source: Only I Can Kill Him -
Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: In the live-fire exercise in the intro, the Fifth Battle Group face a moon-mounted hypervelocity gun, a weapon that fires super-accelerated solid ammunition rather than the more common energy weapons in Star Wars.
Source: Literature / Black Fleet Crisis
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Exercise and Battle. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/battle/exercise
Battle & Exercise. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/battle/exercise>.
Exercise or Battle. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/battle/exercise.
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